From 709ef004dffe9cee2a023a3c8032d4ce80513582 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Miss Islington (bot)" <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2024 22:14:30 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] [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> --- Doc/reference/datamodel.rst | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst index 602014deebaa7b..16edb675f02d03 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::