Nick Coghlan added the comment:
Changing the title, since I spotted a few other problems as well.
The weakref docs still refer to module globals being set to None during
shutdown. That is no longer the case. There are also some assumptions about
cycles with __del__ methods not being garbage collected, which is no longer
true given PEP 442's improvements to module finalization.
I also realised that the introduction of weakref.finalize and the elimination
of the "set globals to None" hack gives Python relatively straightforward
module destructors [1]:
import weakref, sys
mod = sys.modules[__name__]
def del_this():
# implicit ref to the module globals from the function body
weakref.finalize(mod, del_this)
[1] https://mail.python.org/pipermail/import-sig/2013-September/000748.html
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title: Clarify weakref.finalize objects are kept alive automatically ->
Assorted weakref docs improvements
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