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r69078 | brett.cannon | 2009-01-28 16:54:11 -0800 (Wed, 28 Jan 2009) | 2 lines
Clarify some __del__ stuff.
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r69079 | brett.cannon | 2009-01-28 16:54:32 -0800 (Wed, 28 Jan 2009) | 2 lines
Minor spelling mistake in datetime docs.
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r69080 | brett.cannon | 2009-01-28 16:55:33 -0800 (Wed, 28 Jan 2009) | 2 lines
Ignore .pyc and .pyo files.
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diff --git a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst
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is printed to ``sys.stderr`` instead. Also, when :meth:`__del__` is invoked in
response to a module being deleted (e.g., when execution of the program is
done), other globals referenced by the :meth:`__del__` method may already have
- been deleted. For this reason, :meth:`__del__` methods should do the absolute
+ been deleted or in the process of being torn down (e.g. the import
+ machinery shutting down). For this reason, :meth:`__del__` methods
+ should do the absolute
minimum needed to maintain external invariants. Starting with version 1.5,
Python guarantees that globals whose name begins with a single underscore are
deleted from their module before other globals are deleted; if no other