[Python-Dev] doc change for weakref (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Fri May 25 19:46:27 CEST 2012

On Fri, 25 May 2012 10:21:39 -0700 Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:

I'd like to make a slight doc change for weakref to state (more or less):

weakrefs are not invalidated when the strong refs are gone, but rather when garbage collection reclaims the object Should this be accurate for all implementations, or should it be more along the lines of: weakrefs may be invalidated as soon as the strong refs are gone, but may last until garbage collection reclaims the object

How about: weakrefs are invalidated when the object is destroyed, either as a product of all the strong references being gone or the object being reclaimed by the :term:cyclic garbage collector <garbage collection>.

Regards

Antoine.

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