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| author | Brett Cannon <bcannon@gmail.com> | 2009-01-29 04:10:21 (GMT) |
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| committer | Brett Cannon <bcannon@gmail.com> | 2009-01-29 04:10:21 (GMT) |
| commit | e1327f71cf619f65eb81b7c31089611bc71ffe00 (patch) | |
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Merged revisions 69078-69080 via svnmerge from
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r69078 | brett.cannon | 2009-01-28 16:54:11 -0800 (Wed, 28 Jan 2009) | 2 lines
Clarify some __del__ stuff.
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r69079 | brett.cannon | 2009-01-28 16:54:32 -0800 (Wed, 28 Jan 2009) | 2 lines
Minor spelling mistake in datetime docs.
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r69080 | brett.cannon | 2009-01-28 16:55:33 -0800 (Wed, 28 Jan 2009) | 2 lines
Ignore .pyc and .pyo files.
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diff --git a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst index 502305d..3fda6a4 100644 --- a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst +++ b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst @@ -1096,7 +1096,9 @@ Basic customization is printed to ``sys.stderr`` instead. Also, when :meth:`__del__` is invoked in response to a module being deleted (e.g., when execution of the program is done), other globals referenced by the :meth:`__del__` method may already have - been deleted. For this reason, :meth:`__del__` methods should do the absolute + been deleted or in the process of being torn down (e.g. the import + machinery shutting down). For this reason, :meth:`__del__` methods + should do the absolute minimum needed to maintain external invariants. Starting with version 1.5, Python guarantees that globals whose name begins with a single underscore are deleted from their module before other globals are deleted; if no other |