From fb9d7127211447337602ab1d5c8f2920302e8525 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Fred Drake Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 20:00:40 +0000 Subject: Added comments about the weak reference support. --- Misc/NEWS | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS index 85d106f..b715c05 100644 --- a/Misc/NEWS +++ b/Misc/NEWS @@ -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 -- cgit v0.12