2 Basic Utilities

XXX These utilities should be moved to some other section...

void Py_FatalError (char *message)
Print a fatal error message and kill the process. No cleanup is performed. This function should only be invoked when a condition is detected that would make it dangerous to continue using the Python interpreter; e.g., when the object administration appears to be corrupted. On Unix, the standard C library function abort() is called which will attempt to produce a `core' file.

void Py_Exit (int status)
Exit the current process. This calls Py_Finalize() and then calls the standard C library function exit(0).

int Py_AtExit (void (*func) ())
Register a cleanup function to be called by Py_Finalize(). The cleanup function will be called with no arguments and should return no value. At most 32 cleanup functions can be registered. When the registration is successful, Py_AtExit returns 0; on failure, it returns -1. The cleanup function registered last is called first. Each cleanup function will be called at most once.



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