Is there a way to hook into module destruction?

[Neal Becker]

Code at global scope in a module is run at module construction (init). Is
it possible to hook into module destruction (unloading)?

 

[Gerald Kaszuba]

Code at global scope in a module is run at module construction (init). Is
it possible to hook into module destruction (unloading)?

Try the __del__ method.

See http://docs.python.org/ref/customization.html for the docs.

 

[i3dmaster]

Try the __del__ method.

Seehttp://docs.python.org/ref/customization.htmlfor the docs.

I doubt python calls __del__ when unloading module... and plus, I
don't really think python does module unloading though. del module
after import it got it removed from the global namespace but it does
not clean reference I bet, so completely unloading a module should
take more energy of that...

Jim

 

[Gerald Kaszuba]

I doubt python calls __del__ when unloading module... and plus, I

don't really think python does module unloading though. del module

Ah! Apologies... I mis-read the question.

Unloading or at least destroying the reference to a loaded module, you
could go for "del module_name"?