Commit 4bca4f17 authored by Richard Oudkerk's avatar Richard Oudkerk

Merge

parents 307502fb 5c9e71f0
...@@ -53,12 +53,6 @@ they need -- it's not usually necessary to create your own weak references ...@@ -53,12 +53,6 @@ they need -- it's not usually necessary to create your own weak references
directly. The low-level machinery used by the weak dictionary implementations directly. The low-level machinery used by the weak dictionary implementations
is exposed by the :mod:`weakref` module for the benefit of advanced uses. is exposed by the :mod:`weakref` module for the benefit of advanced uses.
.. note::
Weak references to an object are cleared before the object's :meth:`__del__`
is called, to ensure that the weak reference callback (if any) finds the
object still alive.
Not all objects can be weakly referenced; those objects which can include class Not all objects can be weakly referenced; those objects which can include class
instances, functions written in Python (but not in C), instance methods, sets, instances, functions written in Python (but not in C), instance methods, sets,
frozensets, some :term:`file objects <file object>`, :term:`generator`\s, type frozensets, some :term:`file objects <file object>`, :term:`generator`\s, type
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