[issue17765] weakref.ref ignores a 'callback' keyword argument

[Mark Dickinson]

New submission from Mark Dickinson:

Passing a weakref.ref callback by keyword currently fails silently:

Python 3.4.0a0 (default:537c1f1ab53c, Apr 16 2013, 20:07:47) 
[GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5664)] on darwin
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>>> import weakref
>>> weakref.ref({1, 2, 3}, callback=lambda ref:print("collected"))
<weakref at 0x1006189d8; dead>

For Python 3.4, I'd suggest that either (1) this should be an exception, or (2) it should be permissible to pass the callback by keyword.

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messages: 187115
nosy: mark.dickinson
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: needs patch
status: open
title: weakref.ref ignores a 'callback' keyword argument
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.4

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