[Python-Dev] Unload a module written in C

Fri Mar 25 12:47:16 CET 2011

On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 9:36 PM, Victor Stinner
<victor.stinner at haypocalc.com> wrote:
>> And registering your cleanup function with atexit() isn't enough? Or
>> does that remove the handler too early?
>> atexit() is too late: when Python is embeded, Py_Finalize() may be
> called a long time before the program does really finish.

I'm talking about the Python "atexit" module - any callbacks
registered there are invoked by Py_Finalize(), not by process
termination.
Cheers,
Nick.
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Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia