Re: weakrefs, threads,, and object ids

2009-06-15 Thread Aahz
In article <84397edd-4830-4c90-9fb6-f72c74028...@i28g2000prd.googlegroups.com>, Jeremy wrote: > >While guaranteed unique for simultaneously existing objects, how often >will an object assume an ID previously held by former object? Given >that the ID is a memory address in Python's heap, I assume

weakrefs, threads,, and object ids

2009-06-14 Thread Jeremy
Hello, I'm using weakrefs in a small multi-threaded application. I have been using object IDs as dictionary keys with weakrefs to execute removal code, and was glad to find out that this is in fact recommended practice (http://docs.python.org/library/weakref.html) > This simple example shows how