From: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2024 20:14:30 +0000 (+0200) Subject: [3.12] gh-120937: Reference weakref from the `__del__` documentation (GH-120940)... X-Git-Tag: v3.12.5~163 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=709ef004dffe9cee2a023a3c8032d4ce80513582;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git [3.12] gh-120937: Reference weakref from the `__del__` documentation (GH-120940) (#121062) gh-120937: Reference weakref from the `__del__` documentation (GH-120940) (cherry picked from commit 1c13b29d54ad6d7c9e030227d575ad7d21b4054f) Co-authored-by: chaen Co-authored-by: Hugo van Kemenade <1324225+hugovk@users.noreply.github.com> --- diff --git a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst index 602014deebaa..16edb675f02d 100644 --- a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst +++ b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst @@ -1643,6 +1643,8 @@ Basic customization It is not guaranteed that :meth:`__del__` methods are called for objects that still exist when the interpreter exits. + :class:`weakref.finalize` provides a straightforward way to register + a cleanup function to be called when an object is garbage collected. .. note::