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diff --git a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst index dbcc9a1..5b6f1e8 100644 --- a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst +++ b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst @@ -1257,7 +1257,9 @@ 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 |