[Python-Dev] Patch for Weak References for Functions

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

Phil Thompson writes:
 > Any chance of the attached small patch be applied to enable weak
 > references to functions?
 > 
 > It's particularly useful for lambda functions and closes the "very last
 > loophole where a programmer can cause a PyQt script to seg fault" :)

Phil,
  Can you explain how this would help with the memory issues?  I'd
like to have a better idea of how this would make things work right.
Are there issues with the cyclic GC with respect to the Qt/KDE
bindings?


  -Fred

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