Charles-François Natali added the comment: Code relying on garbage collection/shutdown hook to flush files is borked: - it's never been guaranteed by the Python specification (neither does Java/C#...) - even with an implementation based on C stdio streams, streams won't get flushed in case of _exit()/abort()/asynchronous signal
Furthermore, I think it's inherently unsafe: in a multi-threaded program, flushing requires locking, and doing this at shutdown is a recipe for deadlock/arbitrary delay (image you have a daemon thread currently holding the lock, e.g. for stdout). In short, that's an application bug to me. ---------- nosy: +neologix _______________________________________ 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
