[Python-Dev] futures API

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sun Dec 12 03:33:34 CET 2010


On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 6:53 AM, Brian Quinlan <brian at sweetapp.com> wrote:
> Is it still unclear why it is there? Maybe you could propose some additional
> documentation.

Did you get my question the other day as to whether a
weakref.WeakKeySet might be a better choice? I believe you would be
able to get rid of the periodic sweep for dead references if you did
that, and I didn't spot any obvious downsides.

Cheers,
Nick.

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