[Python-Dev] Anyone using weakrefs?

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

Fredrik Lundh writes:
 > am I the only one who gets a bit nervous when the guy who
 > designed and implemented a feature has a hard time finding a
 > non-contrived use case? ;-)

  I had a non-contrived need for them 5 1/2 years ago!  But I worked
around it in C code back then, since I was building a C extension
anyway; the result was not generally applicable since it was tightly
tied to the particular C extension I needed.
  And I'm sure we could have used this in Grail as well.  ;-)


  -Fred

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