Message 305280 - Python tracker (original) (raw)

I guess we allow an unhandled SystemExit in a child thread to propagate to (and hence terminate) the main thread, so allowing a Py_Finalize call in a subinterpreter to terminate the main interpreter would be comparable to that.

My main rationale for requiring that the main interpreter be active (or be made active) when shutting down is to reduce the number of scenarios we need to test (right now we only test Py_Initialize/Py_Finalize cycles with a single interpreter, and officially allowing finalization from arbitrary interpreters expands that test matrix a fair bit).