18 __cxa_atexit() is defined in the Itanium C++ ABI. The document explained the motivation behind this function: The C++ Standard requires that destructors be called for global objects when a program …

Deallocation of global objects is done in a arbitrary order, so basically, you cannot use std::cout in the foo () function. atexit () is worse in this regard, because whether it executes before or after …

The previously mentioned usage of using 'atexit' can also be applied by using decorators which I find to be particularly useful. This simply ensures that the decorated function will be called at the termination …

import atexit def exit_handler(): print 'My application is ending!' atexit.register(exit_handler) Just be aware that this works great for normal termination of the script, but it won't get called in all cases …

The compiler successfully found the declaration of std::atexit(), but the linker can't find any compiled definition of this function. Try to link your code by adding this argument to the linker :

3 Just to add to @AST's answer: You are trying to use the atexit library to block closing the tkinter window when the program tries to exit. The problem is that the atexit library calls your function after …

A benefit over atexit.register is that the object is not held in memory until the interpreter is shut down. The cleanup happens when the object gets garbage collected. And unlike object.__del__, …

I want to know if a Python script is terminating correctly or not. For this I am using atexit but the problem is that I do not know how to differentiate if atexit was called with sys.exit(0) or non...

I am working on a program that needs to call a function right before exiting, and was successfully using atexit.register(myFunction) to do so, until it stopped working. Even when I try running just a

Actually, I have a singleton memory manager object is destructed by atexit and global object is using member variable managed by that memory manager. So global object is destructed before …