Guido van Rossum writes: > Weren't weakrefs an external module in 2.1? Can't you distribute that > separately with PyXML (under a different name)? They were an external module in that the types as well as the Python-level access was in Modules/_weakref.c, but invalidating references required cooperation from the core, since action is taken when the refcount goes to 0. It cannot work for 2.0 under any name. > Yeah, but there were some very loud supporters who mostly wanted it > for political reasons at the time. I think I may have fallen for > their arguments a little too fast. ;-) Maybe. I *still* think providing XML support out of the box is a good thing, the questions for me are related to how that should be done rather than whether it should be. But that's a separate discussion. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org> PythonLabs at Zope Corporation
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