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Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 14:44:30 -0600
Subject: Re: How about some syntactic sugar for " __name__ == '__main__' "?
From: Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com>
To: Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 2:33 PM, Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> wrote:
> ... other things decorated with atexit.register
> might actually be called before the main function

I don't think that will happen. The atexit module is documented to
execute its exit functions in reverse order. What's not documented is
the behavior of calling atexit.register() while atexit._run_exitfuncs
is running. That's an implementation detail, and though unlikely to
change, it might be worthwhile getting that behavior documented.

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