On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 4:17 AM, Larry Hastings <[email protected]> wrote: > Given that the weakref doesn't have a reference to the object--merely a weak > reference, different thing--whose reference is it borrowing?
As others have said, it doesn't really matter who's reference it was; just that there was another at the time it was returned. Clearly it can't be considered valid once additional Python code might be run. > FWIW, yes, this is playing merry hell with the Gilectomy. If there are two > threads, and one calls PyWeakref_GetObject(obj), and there's only one > reference to obj, and the other thread blows it away... now what? It's my > contention that this API is simply untenable under the Gilectomy, and that > it needs to change to returning a new (strong) reference. +1 for this change. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fred at fdrake.net> "A storm broke loose in my mind." --Albert Einstein _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com