Deprecate sys.exitfunc in favor of the atexit module.

Per Guido, sys.exitfunc will be kept around for backwards compatability
but atexit will become the one preferred way to do it.

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Doc/lib/libsys.tex b/Doc/lib/libsys.tex
index 2cac03e..a3971b6 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libsys.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libsys.tex
@@ -195,6 +195,7 @@ It is always available.
   module.  \note{The exit function is not called when the program is
   killed by a signal, when a Python fatal internal error is detected,
   or when \code{os._exit()} is called.}
+  \deprecated{2.4}{Use \refmodule{atexit} instead.}
 \end{datadesc}
 
 \begin{funcdesc}{getcheckinterval}{}