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Author pitrou
Recipients BreamoreBoy, ajaksu2, benjamin.peterson, dcjim, elachuni, gvanrossum, jon, kristjan.jonsson, mark.dickinson, pitrou, qelan, tseaver, vdupras, vstinner
Date 2013-12-02.14:30:24
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> Anyway, it's not for me to decide.  We have currently three options:
> a) my first patch, which is a duplication of the 3.x work but is
> non-trivial and could bring stability issues
> b) my second patch, which will increase memory use, but to no more
> than previous versions of python used while iterating
> c) do nothing and have iterations over weak dicts randomly break when
> an underlying cycle is unraveled during iteration.

Either a) or c), for me. We shouldn't change semantics in bugfix
releases.
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2013-12-02 14:30:24pitrousetrecipients: + pitrou, gvanrossum, dcjim, tseaver, mark.dickinson, kristjan.jonsson, vstinner, ajaksu2, jon, benjamin.peterson, vdupras, elachuni, BreamoreBoy, qelan
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