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Wed Nov 12 18:48:20 EST 2003 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2003-November/040213.html

Bernhard Herzog <bh at intevation.de>:

> Wouldn't it be possible to call the callbacks of all weakrefs that point
> to a cycle about to be destroyed before that destruction begins?

I'm not sure that would be a good idea, for the same reasons that it
wouldn't be a good idea to do the same for __del__ methods. Something
might depend on them being called in the right order, or in not being
called too soon.

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