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| author | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> | 2001-02-01 20:00:40 (GMT) |
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| committer | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> | 2001-02-01 20:00:40 (GMT) |
| commit | fb9d7127211447337602ab1d5c8f2920302e8525 (patch) | |
| tree | 1da8b12d82ed158a1127228921f9006fce3c3c94 /Misc | |
| parent | 2a850d91bcc90b4840721d803ad9741b2fce53ee (diff) | |
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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 |