atexit: How does one trigger it manually?

When I run a python script, I can exit the interpreter and atexit will execute all the functions I have registered.

Now, I am using airflow and would like to trigger atexit tasks on_kill() (i.e., when I clear out or kill a dag node in airflow).

For example, in pseudo code, I need to be able to:

class Foo(PythonOperator):
  ...
  def on_kill():
     # somehow, trigger atexit tasks without exiting the 
     # process entirely

atexit isn't a necessity either--I could do something else. The major point is that something getting executed outside the context of python needs to be killed in a procedural manner, and ideally passing up the kill function by reference to the housing script would be a last resort (python does not make this particular alternative easy).

Solution

You could monkey-patch the atexit module — something like this:

import atexit
from queue import LifoQueue


save_register = atexit.register
atexit_queue = LifoQueue()

def my_register(func, *args, **kwargs):
    save_register(func, *args, **kwargs)
    atexit_queue.put((func, args, kwargs))

atexit.register = my_register


if __name__ == '__main__':

    def func1():
        print('func1() called')

    def func2(arg):
        print(f'func2({arg}) called')

    def func3(arg, kwarg1=1, kwarg2='foo'):
        print(f'func3({arg}, kwarg1={kwarg1}, kwarg2={kwarg2!r}) called')

    atexit.register(func1)
    atexit.register(func2, 1)
    atexit.register(func3, 2, kwarg1=42, kwarg2='bar')

    print('Calling queued atexit functions:\n')
    while atexit_queue.qsize():
        func, args, kwargs = atexit_queue.get()
        atexit.unregister(func)  # Prevent it from being called again.
        func(*args, **kwargs)

Output:

Calling queued atexit functions:

func3(2, kwarg1=42, kwarg2='bar') called
func2(1) called
func1() called