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Title: WeakMethod does not support builtin methods
Type: Stage:
Components: Library (Lib) Versions: Python 3.6, Python 3.5
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Status: open Resolution:
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Assigned To: Nosy List: Antony.Lee
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Created on 2016-08-26 02:46 by Antony.Lee, last changed 2022-04-11 14:58 by admin.

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msg273688 - (view) Author: Antony Lee (Antony.Lee) * Date: 2016-08-26 02:46
List subclasses can be weakref'd (as mentioned by the docs), but their methods cannot be wrapped by WeakMethod, even though this makes sense semantically:
```
In [25]: class L(list): pass

In [26]: weakref.WeakMethod(L().append)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
TypeError                                 Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-26-f6246b3b483e> in <module>()
----> 1 weakref.WeakMethod(L().append)

/usr/lib/python3.5/weakref.py in __new__(cls, meth, callback)
     47         except AttributeError:
     48             raise TypeError("argument should be a bound method, not {}"
---> 49                             .format(type(meth))) from None
     50         def _cb(arg):
     51             # The self-weakref trick is needed to avoid creating a reference

TypeError: argument should be a bound method, not <class 'builtin_function_or_method'>
```
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2022-04-11 14:58:35adminsetgithub: 72052
2016-08-26 02:46:05Antony.Leecreate