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| From | Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> |
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| Subject | Re: Speeding up Python's exit |
| Date | Fri, 1 Mar 2013 01:17:12 +0000 (UTC) |
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On 2013-02-28, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote: > I know there is a function os._exit which effectively kills the > Python interpreter dead immediately, without doing any cleanup. What > are the consequences of doing this? You loose any data you haven't saved to disk. > I assume that the memory used by the Python process will be reclaimed > by the operating system, but other resources such as opened files may > not be. All open files (including sockets, pipes, serial ports, etc) will be flushed (from an OS standpoint) and closed. If you've closed all the files you've written to, there should be no danger in just pulling the plug. -- Grant
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Speeding up Python's exit Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-02-28 16:49 +0000
Re: Speeding up Python's exit Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2013-02-28 17:02 +0000
Re: Speeding up Python's exit Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-03-01 04:06 +1100
Re: Speeding up Python's exit Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-03-01 04:33 +1100
Re: Speeding up Python's exit Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com> - 2013-02-28 12:33 -0500
Re: Speeding up Python's exit Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com> - 2013-02-28 12:31 -0500
Re: Speeding up Python's exit Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2013-03-01 01:17 +0000
Re: Speeding up Python's exit Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> - 2013-03-01 19:10 +0000
Re: Speeding up Python's exit Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-03-01 14:17 -0500
Re: Speeding up Python's exit Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> - 2013-03-01 22:51 +0000
Re: Speeding up Python's exit Ross Ridge <rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> - 2013-03-03 18:27 -0500
Re: Speeding up Python's exit Jason Swails <jason.swails@gmail.com> - 2013-03-01 21:51 -0500
Re: Speeding up Python's exit Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> - 2013-03-01 14:59 +0000
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