Why cannot I use __slots__ and weakrefs together?

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Sat, 26 May 2018 11:53:42 +0200, Christian Heimes wrote:

>> Why does weakref hate my Eggs class?
> 
> Weakref needs some place to store reference information. It works if you
> add "__weakref__" to your slots:
> 
> class Eggs:
>      __slots__ = ['spanish_inquisition', '__weakref__']


Thanks!






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