[forwarded from http://bugs.debian.org/211129]

>>> import weakref
>>> class Foo:
...     def bar(self):
...             print 'Hello'
... 
>>> x=Foo()
>>> y=weakref.ref(x.bar)
>>> y
<weakref at 0x4021cb94; dead>

  This behavior is self-evidently wrong, and seems to
be due to an
implementation detail of Python.  There is a workaround
available here:
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/81253
(I haven't
examined it closely, but it looks like it should work)
 Nevertheless, this
should be fixed eventually IMO.

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I fail to see a bug here. x.bar creates a new object (a
bound method),
for which then a weak reference is created. Since there is
no strong
reference to the same bound method, the bound method is
deleted, and
the weak reference dies.