[Python-checkins] cpython (3.2): Issue #15412: Remove erroneous note about weakrefs

richard.oudkerk python-checkins at python.org
Fri Aug 17 16:06:52 CEST 2012


http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/24b13be81d61
changeset:   78617:24b13be81d61
branch:      3.2
parent:      78614:636f75da4b9e
user:        Richard Oudkerk <shibturn at gmail.com>
date:        Fri Aug 17 15:02:47 2012 +0100
summary:
  Issue #15412: Remove erroneous note about weakrefs

files:
  Doc/library/weakref.rst |  6 ------
  1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)


diff --git a/Doc/library/weakref.rst b/Doc/library/weakref.rst
--- a/Doc/library/weakref.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/weakref.rst
@@ -53,12 +53,6 @@
 directly.  The low-level machinery used by the weak dictionary implementations
 is exposed by the :mod:`weakref` module for the benefit of advanced uses.
 
-.. note::
-
-   Weak references to an object are cleared before the object's :meth:`__del__`
-   is called, to ensure that the weak reference callback (if any) finds the
-   object still alive.
-
 Not all objects can be weakly referenced; those objects which can include class
 instances, functions written in Python (but not in C), instance methods, sets,
 frozensets, some :term:`file objects <file object>`, :term:`generator`\s, type

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