Antoine Pitrou added the comment: There are actually several issues here:
* collection of globals at shutdown is wonky: you should add an explicit "del a,f; gc.collect()" at the end of the script * order of tp_clear calls, or another issue with TextIOWrapper: if you open the file in binary mode ("f = open('...', 'wb'); f.write(b'bar')"), the data gets flushed during the GC run ---------- nosy: +pitrou _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue17852> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com