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authorRichard Oudkerk <shibturn@gmail.com>2012-08-17 14:02:47 (GMT)
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Issue #15412: Remove erroneous note about weakrefs
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@@ -53,12 +53,6 @@ they need -- it's not usually necessary to create your own weak references
directly. The low-level machinery used by the weak dictionary implementations
is exposed by the :mod:`weakref` module for the benefit of advanced uses.
-.. note::
-
- Weak references to an object are cleared before the object's :meth:`__del__`
- is called, to ensure that the weak reference callback (if any) finds the
- object still alive.
-
Not all objects can be weakly referenced; those objects which can include class
instances, functions written in Python (but not in C), instance methods, sets,
frozensets, some :term:`file objects <file object>`, :term:`generator`\s, type