New submission from Brian Lauber:
I wrote a module that registers an "atexit" handler. However, when I executed
the unit tests for this module via setuptools, the "atexit" handler would never
be invoked:
python ./setup.py test
The root cause of the issue is that fact that setuptool's "test" command
un-loads modules between each test run. This means that the 'atexit' module is
unavailable when Python exits, which means that the callbacks are never invoked.
It is possible to prevent setuptools from un-loading the 'atexit' module by
importing 'atexit' at the beginning of the setup.py file. This allows the
'atexit' handlers to run, but they ultimately fail because all of the modules
have already been unloaded.
You can find a more complete write-up on the issue here:
https://briandamaged.org/blog/?p=1181
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messages: 701
nosy: Brian.Lauber
priority: bug
status: unread
title: "test" command breaks 'atexit' handlers
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