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Author neologix
Recipients Arfrever, DLitz, aliles, amaury.forgeotdarc, asvetlov, christian.heimes, georg.brandl, grahamd, gregory.p.smith, jcea, lemburg, neologix, pitrou, sbt, twouters, vstinner
Date 2013-10-21.20:47:56
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> Well it is customary for callback-based APIs to hold strong references to their callbacks. If a library wants to avoid leaks, it should register a single callback which will then walk the current "live" resources and protect them.

I guess that the custom usage makes sense.
I'd just like a note in the doc, if possible ;-)
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