https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/fcfc3c8fbe3942e8deef15acc25bfa371db... commit: fcfc3c8fbe3942e8deef15acc25bfa371db7766a branch: 3.7 author: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> committer: GitHub <noreply@github.com> date: 2020-02-10T23:01:23-08:00 summary: bpo-38374: Remove weakref.ReferenceError from docs (GH-18452) Reflecting changes to the code, removed weakref.ReferenceError from weakref.rst and exceptions.rst. Issue submitter provided evidence that the `weakref.ReferenceError` alias for `ReferenceError` was removed from the code in 2007. Working with @gvanrossum at PyCascades CPython sprint we looked at the code and confirmed that `weakref.ReferenceError` was no longer in `weakref.py`. Based on that analysis I removed references `weakref.ReferenceError` from the two documents where it was still being referenced: `weakref.rst` and `exceptions.rst`. https://bugs.python.org/issue38374 (cherry picked from commit 4eb9f4313cfaea6a9611221024a1c54f5662cc37) Co-authored-by: Roger Hurwitz <rogerhurwitz@gmail.com> files: M Doc/c-api/exceptions.rst M Doc/library/weakref.rst diff --git a/Doc/c-api/exceptions.rst b/Doc/c-api/exceptions.rst index a53c49a211036..2f58149c6cd14 100644 --- a/Doc/c-api/exceptions.rst +++ b/Doc/c-api/exceptions.rst @@ -968,9 +968,6 @@ Notes: This is a base class for other standard exceptions. (2) - This is the same as :exc:`weakref.ReferenceError`. - -(3) Only defined on Windows; protect code that uses this by testing that the preprocessor macro ``MS_WINDOWS`` is defined. diff --git a/Doc/library/weakref.rst b/Doc/library/weakref.rst index 8d8a0b5df2687..93efcef1501b4 100644 --- a/Doc/library/weakref.rst +++ b/Doc/library/weakref.rst @@ -323,12 +323,6 @@ objects. types. -.. exception:: ReferenceError - - Exception raised when a proxy object is used but the underlying object has been - collected. This is the same as the standard :exc:`ReferenceError` exception. - - .. seealso:: :pep:`205` - Weak References