[Python-Dev] test___all__ polluting sys.modules? (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sun Dec 30 22:25:25 CET 2012


Richard Oudkerk wrote:

Personally I would like to get rid of the "purge globals" behaviour for modules deleted before shutdown has started: if someone manipulates sys.modules then they can just call gc.collect() if they want to promptly get rid of orphaned reference cycles.

Now that we have cyclic gc, is there any need for the shutdown purge at all?

-- Greg



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