[Python-Dev] Module cleanup improvement (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Wed May 23 02:42:27 CEST 2007


Armin Rigo wrote:

if we consider a CPython in which the cycle GC has been disabled by the user, then many del's would not be called any more at interpreter shutdown.

That can happen now anyway. Module clearing only cleans up cycles that go through the module dict.

+1 from me on getting rid of module clearing at shutdown.

-- Greg



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