[Python-Dev] Garbage announcement printed on interpreter shutdown (original) (raw)

Glyph Lefkowitz glyph at twistedmatrix.com
Sat Sep 11 01:42:10 CEST 2010

On Sep 10, 2010, at 5:10 PM, Amaury Forgeot d'Arc wrote:

2010/9/10 Fred Drake <fdrake at acm.org>:

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 4:32 PM, Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:

IMO this runs contrary to the decision we made when DeprecationWarnings were made silent by default: it spews messages not only at developers, but also at users, who don't need it and probably are going to be quite confused by it,

Agreed; this should be silent by default. +1. I suggest to enable it only when PyDEBUG (or PyTRACEREFS or PyREFDEBUG?) is defined.

Would it be possible to treat it the same way as a deprecation warning, and show it under the same conditions? It would be nice to know if my Python program is leaking uncollectable objects without rebuilding the interpreter.

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