"Phillip J. Eby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, you could use a custom metaclass with a tp_dealloc or whatever.
Yes, I thought of that, but a custom metaclass to provide one callback is pretty fair overkill! > But I just mainly meant that a PyCObject is almost as good as a weakref > for certain purposes -- i.e. it's got a pointer and a callback. Ah. Yes. Thanks for suggesting it - if it is the simplest way, I may as well do it. > You could of course also use weak references, but that's a bit more > awkward as well. Yes. And they aren't a technology I have used (in Python), so I would have to find out about them. Attributes etc. I have already played with. Regards, Nick Maclaren, University of Cambridge Computing Service, New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QH, England. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel.: +44 1223 334761 Fax: +44 1223 334679 _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
