Fredrik Lundh wrote: > that's probably because finalizers *are* called when Python exits.
D'oh! Old semantics? I'm sure I remember this used to not work at some point, and not just in Jython. My apologies to anyone who I led astray. Still ... better to be too careful ;) I've been trying to find the declared semantics (without looking at the source for now) but it's proving elusive ... Tim Delaney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list