[Python-Dev] RE: [Python-checkins] python/dist/src/Lib weakref.py,1.19,1.20

[Tim Peters]

[Raymond Hettinger]
> Okay, you've had a second review on the patch and backporting
> to 2.2.3 is reasonable.  Please add a news item for the two changes
> in behavior.

I'll wait for Fred to get back.  I'm not sure you've used weakrefs <wink>.

> BTW, I wasn't trying to be difficult, I was starting from the
> presumption that Fred wasn't smoking dope when he put in that weird
> block of code. Looks like the presumption was wrong ;-)

That's cool, I started from them same presumption, and am still not entirely
over it -- it was such an outrageously inefficient way to delete a key that
the suspicion still nags there was *some* reason for it (other than really
good dope <wink>).