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.. moduleauthor:: Martin von Löwis <martin@loewis.home.cs.tu-berlin.de>
.. sectionauthor:: Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake@acm.org>
+**Source code:** :source:`Lib/weakref.py`
+
+--------------
The :mod:`weakref` module allows the Python programmer to create :dfn:`weak
references` to objects.
@@ -59,8 +62,11 @@ is exposed by the :mod:`weakref` module for the benefit of advanced uses.
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
-objects, sockets, arrays, deques and regular expression pattern objects.
+objects, sockets, arrays, deques, regular expression pattern objects, and code
+objects.
+.. versionchanged:: 3.2
+ Added support for thread.lock, threading.Lock, and code objects.
Several built-in types such as :class:`list` and :class:`dict` do not directly
support weak references but can add support through subclassing::