There is a small error in weakref.WeakValueDictionary.

This error was found in 2.1c1, a quick look in the
april 15th build revealed it was not fixed.

Demonstration:

>>> class Spam:
...     pass
...
>>> dict = {'a':Spam()}
>>> weakref.WeakValueDictionary(dict)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
  File
"/usr/local/python-2.1c1/lib/python2.1/UserDict.py",
line 6, in __init__
    if dict is not None: self.update(dict)
  File
"/usr/local/python-2.1c1/lib/python2.1/weakref.py",
line 103, in update
    L.append(key, ref(o, remove))

Examination of the script reveals that the fix is obvious:

    def update(self, dict):
        d = self.data
        L = []
        for key, o in dict.items():
            def remove(o, data=d, key=key):
                del data[key]
            # L.append(key, ref(o, remove))
            # ^^^ erroneous ^^^^
            L.append((key, ref(o, remove)))
            # ^^^ right ^^^
        for key, r in L:
            d[key] = r

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Ok, I submitted it the day before the 2.1 was released.

I has been fixed in the release. Nevermind.

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Ok, I submitted it the day before the 2.1 was released.

I has been fixed in the release. Nevermind.

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This was fixed in Lib/weakref.py revision 1.8 (the version
included with Python 2.1).