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| author | Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> | 2014-12-07 00:28:27 (GMT) |
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| committer | Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> | 2014-12-07 00:28:27 (GMT) |
| commit | 5db1bb81ff88c90364cfcf458bae8115126411d8 (patch) | |
| tree | 334a5d67f565b3a103f068a82147b6bede9e1b20 /Doc/library/weakref.rst | |
| parent | b9859daeeb8ad767d2b2cc56f72736810114dd49 (diff) | |
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Issue #22696: Add function :func:`sys.is_finalizing` to know about interpreter shutdown.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/weakref.rst b/Doc/library/weakref.rst index cc883b1..2e16077 100644 --- a/Doc/library/weakref.rst +++ b/Doc/library/weakref.rst @@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ These method have the same issues as the and :meth:`keyrefs` method of are called in reverse order of creation. A finalizer will never invoke its callback during the later part of - the interpreter shutdown when module globals are liable to have + the :term:`interpreter shutdown` when module globals are liable to have been replaced by :const:`None`. .. method:: __call__() @@ -527,8 +527,8 @@ follows:: Starting with Python 3.4, :meth:`__del__` methods no longer prevent reference cycles from being garbage collected, and module globals are -no longer forced to :const:`None` during interpreter shutdown. So this -code should work without any issues on CPython. +no longer forced to :const:`None` during :term:`interpreter shutdown`. +So this code should work without any issues on CPython. However, handling of :meth:`__del__` methods is notoriously implementation specific, since it depends on internal details of the interpreter's garbage |