[Python-3000] Removing sys.exitfunc

[Guido van Rossum]

Rename it to sys._exitfunc?

On 3/8/07, Collin Winter <collinw at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was revisiting my patch on SF to remove sys.exitfunc (per PEP 3100),
> and I found some usages in the stdlib I had missed the first time
> around. One of these, I was surprised to learn, is atexit.py; in fact,
> atexit is implemented in terms of sys.exitfunc. This was especially
> shocking because PEP 3100 cites that you should "use [the] atexit
> module instead" of sys.exitfunc as an argument for the latter's
> deletion.
>
> Suggestions, anyone, on how to remove sys.exitfunc and keep atexit
> working? My own would be to replace atexit.py with a C module that
> allows manipulation of the exitfuncs array in Python/pythonrun.c (or
> something similar).
>
> Collin Winter
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