[Python-ideas] weakrefs

[Greg Ewing]

Ethan Furman wrote:
> I would like to have the guarantees for weakrefs strengthened such that 
> any weakref'ed object that has no strong references left will return 
> None instead of the object, even if the object has not yet been garbage 
> collected.

Why do you want this guarantee? It would complicate
implementations for which ref counting is not the
native method of managing memory.

-- 
Greg