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weak references are removed before __del__ is called. #46213

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jforan mannequin opened this issue Jan 23, 2008 · 4 comments
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weak references are removed before __del__ is called. #46213

jforan mannequin opened this issue Jan 23, 2008 · 4 comments
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interpreter-core (Objects, Python, Grammar, and Parser dirs) type-bug An unexpected behavior, bug, or error

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jforan mannequin commented Jan 23, 2008

BPO 1918
Nosy @gvanrossum, @birkenfeld, @tiran

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title = 'weak references are removed before __del__ is called.'
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jforan mannequin commented Jan 23, 2008

Not sure where to put example code, but here it goes:

import weakref
class MyObj(object):
	def __init__(self):
		self.ref = weakref.ref(self)
	def __del__(self):
		print "HERE123", self.ref()
o = MyObj()
o = None

@jforan jforan mannequin added interpreter-core (Objects, Python, Grammar, and Parser dirs) type-bug An unexpected behavior, bug, or error labels Jan 23, 2008
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tiran commented Jan 23, 2008

The behavior is documented in the C code. I don't know how it is
described in the docs.

Objects/typeobject.c around line 820 says:

/* If we added a weaklist, we clear it. Do this *before* calling
the finalizer (del), clearing slots, or clearing the instance
dict. */

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Georg, can you update the docs? Weak references *to* an object are
cleared before the object's __del__ is called, to ensure that the weak
reference callback (if any) finds the object healthy.

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Done in r61733.

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