[Pyrex] weak references to Pyrex instances?

Greg Ewing greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Tue Oct 5 03:37:19 CEST 2004


"Phillip J. Eby" <pje at telecommunity.com>:

> Well, you can probably subclass it in Python and add:
> 
>      __slots__ = '__weakref__'
> 
> I don't know for sure if it works with Pyrex, nor do I know a better way to 
> do it with Pyrex.

Adding weakref support is on my todo list, but I haven't got
around to it yet.

Also, I haven't decided whether all extension types should
be weak referenceable automatically, or whether it should
be an option. Any thoughts on that from people?

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