Diez B. Roggisch wrote:
...
>>
>> I have a vague feeling that I came across problems in the past about
>> the order in which modules were finalized.
>
> I'm a bit on unsure ground here - so take it with a grain of salt.
>
> It is for sure that only executing code will refer to a global - the
> but am wondering exactly what 'resources' are left available when the
> r.close method is called in the __del__ method of RealTypeResourceCleaner.
>
> In particular, can I rely on the module globals of r still being present
> if the RealType instance is going away because the main script has
I'm thinking of using Tim Peters' excellent approach to resource clean
up see
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-April/063425.html
> class _RealTypeResourceCleaner:
> def __init__(self, *resources):
> self.resources = resources
>
> def __del__(self):
> if s
