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author | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> | 1998-01-26 19:16:27 (GMT) |
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committer | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> | 1998-01-26 19:16:27 (GMT) |
commit | c6c921a4def19c9b44f1e1234b35f7fb0a609731 (patch) | |
tree | cb6201b35820eaf9f2444d67a50282861a5dd89c /Doc/api | |
parent | 25f1722dd765826dc020d5e6ff6b89b0edaedbfd (diff) | |
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Py_AtExit(): Added brief note about the constraint on cleanup functions not
calling the Python API.
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diff --git a/Doc/api/api.tex b/Doc/api/api.tex index 4e1a850..26fc104 100644 --- a/Doc/api/api.tex +++ b/Doc/api/api.tex @@ -542,12 +542,15 @@ calls the standard \C{} library function \code{exit(0)}. \end{cfuncdesc} \begin{cfuncdesc}{int}{Py_AtExit}{void (*func) ()} -Register a cleanup function to be called by \code{Py_Finalize()}. The -cleanup function will be called with no arguments and should return no -value. At most 32 cleanup functions can be registered. When the -registration is successful, \code{Py_AtExit} returns 0; on failure, it -returns -1. The cleanup function registered last is called first. -Each cleanup function will be called at most once. +Register a cleanup function to be called by \cfunction{Py_Finalize()}. +The cleanup function will be called with no arguments and should +return no value. At most 32 cleanup functions can be registered. +When the registration is successful, \cfunction{Py_AtExit()} returns +\code{0}; on failure, it returns \code{-1}. The cleanup function +registered last is called first. Each cleanup function will be called +at most once. Since Python's internal finallization will have +completed before the cleanup function, no Python APIs should be called +by \var{func}. \end{cfuncdesc} |