[Python-Dev] making weakref.ref objects subclassable (original) (raw)

Anthony Baxter anthony at interlink.com.au
Thu Jul 1 01:11:07 EDT 2004


Tim Peters wrote:

For the reasons given before, that won't happen. The analysis I gave was based on a complete understanding of every gory detail of how Python's gc works -- there's simply nothing risky about this change wrt gc performance. Empirical validation is unnecessary .

If people want to surprise us, better they spend time writing nasty new tests of weakref subclassing!

Why can I forsee the strings "garbage collector" and "subclasses of weakrefs", along with "discovered in Zope3", appearing in the 2.4.1 2.4.2 and 2.4.3 release announcements? <0.5 wink>

Anthony



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