On 01/14/2016 10:45 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > On 14 January 2016 at 15:42, Benjamin Peterson <benja...@python.org> wrote: >> This is a "well-known" issue. Parts of the interpreter (and especially, >> extension modules) cheerfully stash objects in global variables with no >> way to clean them up. Fixing this is a large project, which probably >> involves implementing PEP 489. > > The actual multi-phase extension module import system from 489 was > implemented for 3.5, but indeed, the modules with stashed global state > haven't been converted yet.
The hairy details on why the global variables haven't yet gone away are on import-sig [0]. Nick suggested a workable solution there that I really need to go back to and implement. [0] https://mail.python.org/pipermail/import-sig/2015-July/001022.html _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
