[New-bugs-announce] [issue10188] tempfile.TemporaryDirectory may throw errors at shutdown

[Nick Coghlan]

New submission from Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com>:

During interpreter shutdown, modules can become unusable as module globals are set to None. This is a problem for tempfile.TemporaryDirectory, as it needs working os, os.path and stat modules in order to clean up the filesystem.

The class makes a valiant attempt at reducing the frequency of these errors, but it is ultimately useless, since the three modules internally rely on their various globals remaining valid.

Issue #812369 may be a possible solution to this problem, or perhaps even an explicit list of essential modules that are nulled out only after all other modules have been destroyed.

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messages: 119505
nosy: ncoghlan
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: tempfile.TemporaryDirectory may throw errors at shutdown

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