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authorFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2001-02-01 20:00:40 (GMT)
committerFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2001-02-01 20:00:40 (GMT)
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Added comments about the weak reference support.
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@@ -13,6 +13,12 @@ Core language, builtins, and interpreter
- Functions are now compared and hashed by identity, not by value, since
the func_code attribute is writable.
+- Weak references (PEP 205) have been added. This involves a few
+ changes in the core, an extension module (_weakref), and a Python
+ module (weakref). The weakref module is the public interface. It
+ includes support for "explicit" weak references, proxy objects, and
+ mappings with weakly held values.
+
Standard library
- mailbox.py now has a new class, PortableUnixMailbox which is