Re: [Python-Dev] doc change for weakref

2012-05-25 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Ethan Furman wrote: I'd like to make a slight doc change for weakref to state (more or less): What specific part of the docs are you planning to change? My guess is that you want to change this start of the third paragraph: http://docs.python.org/py3k/library/weakref.html [quote] A weak refe

Re: [Python-Dev] doc change for weakref

2012-05-25 Thread Tim Delaney
On 26 May 2012 03:46, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > On Fri, 25 May 2012 10:21:39 -0700 > Ethan Furman wrote: > > I'd like to make a slight doc change for weakref to state (more or less): > > > > weakrefs are not invalidated when the strong refs > > are gone, but rather when garbage collection

Re: [Python-Dev] doc change for weakref

2012-05-25 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Fri, 25 May 2012 10:21:39 -0700 Ethan Furman wrote: > I'd like to make a slight doc change for weakref to state (more or less): > > weakrefs are not invalidated when the strong refs > are gone, but rather when garbage collection > reclaims the object > > Should this be accurate fo

Re: [Python-Dev] doc change for weakref

2012-05-25 Thread Benjamin Peterson
2012/5/25 Ethan Furman : > I'd like to make a slight doc change for weakref to state (more or less): > >   weakrefs are not invalidated when the strong refs >   are gone, but rather when garbage collection >   reclaims the object I think this is fine. -- Regards, Benjamin _

[Python-Dev] doc change for weakref

2012-05-25 Thread Ethan Furman
I'd like to make a slight doc change for weakref to state (more or less): weakrefs are not invalidated when the strong refs are gone, but rather when garbage collection reclaims the object Should this be accurate for all implementations, or should it be more along the lines of: we