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 _