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Author tim.peters
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> The approach looks sound but I believe you forgot to clear
> the wr_callback pointer.  I'm attaching an incremental patch
> (relative to patch3.txt).

Some of the comments in that incremental patch are good 
additions, but I don't agree with the code changes.  A 
weakref object owns a (strong) reference to its wr_callback, 
and the first pass gives move_troublemakers its own new 
strong reference to each weakref object.  Because of the 
latter, nothing any callback does can cause any of these 
weakrefs to go away, so nothing can happen to cause their 
wr_callback slots to become NULL either.  The assertion that 
wr_callback isn't NULL is appropriate.  If you still think it's 
possible for wr_callback to become NULL, please concoct a 
test showing it happen.

The passes after the first give up move_troublemaker's 
references to the weakref objects.  Then they'll go away, 
when their refcounts hit 0.  Sometimes that happens right 
away, sometimes not.  In either case, it's weakref_dealloc's 
job to decrement the refcount on w->wr_callback when w 
goes away, and there's no point (that I can see) to 
duplicating that logic too inside gcmodule.

Note that the comments before _PyWeakref_ClearRef() 
explain that the weakref's tp_dealloc is expected to finish the 
job (clear the wr_callback slot) -- that's been true since 
_PyWeakref_ClearRef() was first introduced.
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