https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/ea446409cd5f1364beafd5e5255da679999... commit: ea446409cd5f1364beafd5e5255da6799993f285 branch: master author: David H <dhdavvie@gmail.com> committer: Victor Stinner <vstinner@redhat.com> date: 2019-01-28T10:31:19+01:00 summary: bpo-35701: Update doc for UUID weak referencing (GH-11621) files: M Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst index ce46afd48158..fb25ce2f7669 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst @@ -316,8 +316,6 @@ Optimizations (Contributed by Inada Naoki in :issue:`33597`) * :class:`uuid.UUID` now uses ``__slots__`` to reduce its memory footprint. - Note that this means that instances can no longer be weak-referenced and - that arbitrary attributes can no longer be added to them. * The :class:`list` constructor does not overallocate the internal item buffer if the input iterable has a known length (the input implements ``__len__``). @@ -514,9 +512,6 @@ Changes in the Python API * The function :func:`math.factorial` no longer accepts arguments that are not int-like. (Contributed by Pablo Galindo in :issue:`33083`.) -* :class:`uuid.UUID` now uses ``__slots__``, therefore instances can no longer - be weak-referenced and attributes can no longer be added. - * :mod:`xml.dom.minidom` and :mod:`xml.sax` modules no longer process external entities by default. (Contributed by Christian Heimes in :issue:`17239`.)