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| author | Éric Araujo <merwok@netwok.org> | 2011-07-29 16:04:24 (GMT) |
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| committer | Éric Araujo <merwok@netwok.org> | 2011-07-29 16:04:24 (GMT) |
| commit | fe1e298d8bbfbdfd1c2af74dbb74f47e2d04a6d0 (patch) | |
| tree | b9b6f456a06f529110f40468d21b7d5d63969aee | |
| parent | 63b18a4445a22d157b5ddf0677cc904356d83d81 (diff) | |
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Document that atexit execution order is undefined (#9788)
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diff --git a/Doc/library/atexit.rst b/Doc/library/atexit.rst index cc1051b..5b87b94 100644 --- a/Doc/library/atexit.rst +++ b/Doc/library/atexit.rst @@ -9,7 +9,9 @@ The :mod:`atexit` module defines functions to register and unregister cleanup functions. Functions thus registered are automatically executed upon normal -interpreter termination. +interpreter termination. The order in which the functions are called is not +defined; if you have cleanup operations that depend on each other, you should +wrap them in a function and register that one. This keeps :mod:`atexit` simple. Note: the functions registered via this module are not called when the program is killed by a signal not handled by Python, when a Python fatal internal error |