[Python-Dev] Threading, atexit, and logging (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Fri Dec 8 00:35:30 CET 2006


Martin v. Löwis wrote:

Also, if the interpreter invokes, say, threading.shutdown(): that's also "user-screwable", as a user may put something else into threading.shutdown.

Although it would require being somewhat more deliberate, since threading._shutdown clearly has something to do with threading, whereas the atexit mechanism could get screwed up by someone who wasn't even thinking about what effect it might have on threading.

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