weakref.proxy behaviour in python 3.0

[Mark Dickinson]

On Aug 21, 5:06 pm, Nicholas Cole <nicholas.c... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Mark Dickinson <dicki... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> [SNIP]
>
> > So my guess is that the change was unintentional.
>
> > It's probably worth a bug report.  Even if the behaviour isn't going
> > to change in either 2.x or 3.x (and it probably isn't), it might be
> > possible to clarify the docs.
>
> I think the docs should be fixed: it would be good to have a list of
> key examples where the behaviour is different.  Although the new
> behaviour is better, it certainly tripped me up badly.
>
> I'm happy to fill a report out, but since you seem to know much more
> about the internals, I wonder if a bug report written by you would be
> more useful!

http://bugs.python.org/issue9658

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Mark