Indeed.

> but in normal operation, Python objects don't spontaneously ascend
> to a different plane of existence - as long as there are pointers to them in
> memory

> in the case of Referenceables that are currently in use, a reference
> from a dictionary on the Broker instance for the client which is using
> them

Suppose I have a Thingy:

myThingy = Thingy()

I want to give you some amount of access to manipulate myThingy, so I make a Referenceable which has some connection to it:

myReferenceable.thingy = weakref.proxy(myThingy)

and I send you the Referenceable. Now suppose I do

del myThingy

Now myThingy will be garbage collected. Then, if you invoke methods on myReferenceable, they'll fail. Is this what we want, or should I tell you that your RemoteReference should be considered stale?

If I'm not thinking about this correctly please advise. I realize that I could have done

myReferenceable.thingy = myThingy

so that myThingy lives as long as myReferenceable, but this doesn't actually seem like what I would normally want.

Daniel