New submission from Jason Baker <amnorv...@gmail.com>:
There's an issue with the documentation on the atexit module[1]. It states:
"Note: the functions registered via this module are not called when the program
is killed by a signal, when a Python fatal internal error is detected, or when
os._exit() is called."
This isn't necessarily true. For instance, if I start the following script:
from atexit import register
from time import sleep
@register
def end():
print 'atexit'
while True:
sleep(1)
...and then do a "kill -SIGINT <pid>", the atexit function gets called. It
would be helpful to have a more detailed description of the rules on how this
works.
[1] http://docs.python.org/library/atexit.html#module-atexit
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assignee: d...@python
components: Documentation
messages: 118141
nosy: Jason.Baker, d...@python
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Correction to atexit documentation
versions: Python 2.7
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