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Re: Speeding up Python's exit

From Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: Speeding up Python's exit
Date 2013-03-01 01:17 +0000
Organization PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC
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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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