[Python-Dev] WeakSet in Python 2.7

[Michael Foord]

On 29/03/2010 20:20, Michael Foord wrote:
> On 29/03/2010 18:16, Michael Foord wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> 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
>>
>> I needed this in unittest and used a WeakKeyDictionary instead.
>
> Hmmm... I was under the mistaken impression that this was implemented 
> in pure-Python. It's in C so beyond my threshold for simple porting 
> I'm afraid. Still if someone else is up for it...

No, my mistake - it *is* implemented in Python. I'm porting it now.

Michael

>
> All the best,
>
> Michael
>
>>
>> Michael
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