David> What would be unreasonable about adding a
David> join_nondaemonic_threads()
David> call before the call to
David> call_sys_exitfunc()
David> near the beginning of Py_Finalize?
David> Instead of _MainThread.__exitfunc having to rely on
David> atexit.register to ensure that it gets called,
David> join_nondaemonic_threads would call _MainThread.__exitfunc (or
David> some functional equivalent). Both join_nondaemonic_threads and
David> call_sys_exitfunc would execute while the interpreter "is still
David> entirely intact", as the Py_Finalize comment says.
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David> This seems simple. Am I overlooking something?
A patch? <0.5 wink>
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