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authorAntoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>2010-08-08 22:18:46 (GMT)
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Issue #477863: Print a warning at shutdown if gc.garbage is not empty.
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@@ -119,6 +119,11 @@ New, Improved, and Deprecated Modules
* The :class:`ftplib.FTP` class now supports the context manager protocol
(Contributed by Tarek Ziadé and Giampaolo Rodolà; :issue:`4972`.)
+* A warning message will now get printed at interpreter shutdown if
+ the :data:`gc.garbage` list isn't empty. This is meant to make the
+ programmer aware that his code contains object finalization issues.
+ (Added by Antoine Pitrou; :issue:`477863`.)
+
* The :func:`shutil.copytree` function has two new options:
* *ignore_dangling_symlinks*: when ``symlinks=False`` (meaning that the