[Python-Dev] WeakSet in Python 2.7

[Michael Foord]

On 29/03/2010 19:14, Daniel Stutzbach wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Michael Foord 
> <michael at voidspace.org.uk <mailto:michael at voidspace.org.uk>> wrote:
>
>     Python 3 includes a WeakSet implementation. Any objections to me
>     backporting this to 2.7?
>
>     http://docs.python.org/py3k/library/weakref.html#weakref.WeakSet
>
>
> Backporting WeakSet would also make it possible to backport the fix 
> for this reference leak:
>
> http://bugs.python.org/issue2521

It should be possible to fix it with a WeakKeyDictionary instead of WeakSet.

All the best,

Michael Foord

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