Destructor?

[Matt Nordhoff]

Matt Nordhoff wrote:
> Gabriel Rossetti wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> we are writing an application that needs some cleanup to be done if the 
>> application is quit, normally (normal termination) or by a signal like 
>> SIGINT or SIGTERM. I know that the __del__ method exists, but unless I'm 
>> mistaken there is no guarantee as of when it will be called, and some 
>> objects may have already been released (at lease I've had trouble in the 
>> past accessing certain objects from inside __del__, probably since the 
>> parent class's __del__ has to be called first, then it's objects are 
>> already released by the time I need to do something with them). Another 
>> method would be to implement something using the signal module and have 
>> a callback that does all the cleanup when the app. is 
>> quit/terminated/interrupted and have all the child classes override that 
>> with their cleanup code.
>>
>> What is the community's point of view on the subject?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Gabriel
> 
> atexit? <http://docs.python.org/lib/module-atexit.html>
> 
> If it's only small things, there's try...finally, of course..

Huh, I totally didn't know that atexit is only run on normal
terminations. Oops. Never mind.
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