From d7cd71c72a9ad0abcc89deed50762ac7ceaef6d4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Miss Islington (bot)" <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2024 22:24:25 +0200 Subject: [3.13] gh-120937: Reference weakref from the `__del__` documentation (GH-120940) (#121061) gh-120937: Reference weakref from the `__del__` documentation (GH-120940) (cherry picked from commit 1c13b29d54ad6d7c9e030227d575ad7d21b4054f) Co-authored-by: chaen Co-authored-by: Hugo van Kemenade <1324225+hugovk@users.noreply.github.com> --- Doc/reference/datamodel.rst | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst index b78b381..527eac6 100644 --- a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst +++ b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst @@ -1664,6 +1664,8 @@ Basic customization It is not guaranteed that :meth:`__del__` methods are called for objects that still exist when the interpreter exits. + :class:`weakref.finalize` provides a straightforward way to register + a cleanup function to be called when an object is garbage collected. .. note:: -- cgit v0.12