Re: atexit handler in IDLE?
 

On Jan 15, 2013, at 10:22 AM, Mark Janssen <dreamingforward@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 6:25 AM, Steve Spicklemire <steve@spvi.com> wrote:
>> I'm trying to get this program, which works on the command line, to run correctly in the IDLE environment:
>>
>> import atexit
>>
>> print "This is my program"
>>
>> def exit_func():
>> print "OK.. that's all folks!"
>>
>> atexit.register(exit_func)
>>
>> print "Program is ending..."
>
> You know, I think I looked at this problem once. It was rather
> strange, but I think you need to create a tempfile, so that Python
> knows that IDLE is running. There's an item for this in IDLE's TODO
> list. I was going to implement it, which is fairly east, but never
> got to it.
>
> mark
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I don't really know how to use this. Is there a detailed todo list somewhere? I did find this tantalizing bit in news.txt, but when I tried to test it (by setting to option to false), I couldn't get it to work. Is there a set oftests for idle that might exercise this option?

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What's New in IDLEfork 0.9b1?
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*Release date: 02-Jun-2003*

- Added the delete-exitfunc option to config-main.def. (This option is not
included in the Options dialog.) Setting this to True (the default) will
cause IDLE to not run sys.exitfunc/atexit when the subprocess exits.

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Thanks!
-steve