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

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Sun Dec 30 22:52:37 CET 2012

On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 10:25:25 +1300 Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:

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?

If you have an object with a del method as a module global, the cyclic gc will refuse to consider the module globals at all (which means it will affect unrelated objects).

So, yes, I think the shutdown purge is still necessary. Perhaps there are ways to make it smarter.

Regards

Antoine.

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