On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 5:39 PM, Greg Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nick Coghlan wrote: > >> It's a fact of Python development: __del__ methods cannot safely reference >> module globals, because those globals may be gone by the time that method is >> invoked. > > Speaking of this, has there been any more thought given > to the idea of dropping the module clearing and just > relying on cyclic GC?
No, but it is an intriguing thought nevertheless. The module clearing causes nothing but trouble... -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
