I'm very excited to see this happening! It's been a constant pain and one of the things I've always regretted. Thanks Antoine!
--Guido On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > > Hello, > > PEP 442 has now been committed in time for testing in Alpha 1. > > This paves the way for the removal of another well-known annoyance: the > behaviour of module globals at shutdown. Now that reference cycles > aren't a barrier to object finalization anymore, we shouldn't need > to set module globals to None before trying to reclaim modules. > (and then, we don't need to cache global functions for use in > finalizers, either) > > I have a patch to suppress the hack in > http://bugs.python.org/issue18214 > Once I get to add some tests, I would like to commit it soon too! > > Regards > > Antoine. -- --Guido van Rossum (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
