Skip to main content

Python 2.7 & 3.1 include a WeakSet class, a collection for storing objects using weak references (see the Python weakref module).

This project is a backport of the weakrefset module, and tests, for Python 2.5 and 2.6. The tests require the unittest2 package.

You can install it with: pip install weakrefset

Usage is straightforward. You don’t need to deal with weak references themselves, the WeakSet manages the references and you can add / remove / iterate over your objects directly:

>>> from weakrefset import WeakSet
>>> class Foo(object): pass
...
>>> f1 = Foo()
>>> f2 = Foo()
>>> refs = WeakSet([f1, f2])
>>> f3 = Foo()
>>> refs.add(f3)
>>> refs.remove(f1)
>>> del f2
>>> f3 in refs
True
>>> for f in refs:
...  print f
...
<__main__.Foo object at 0x40e410>

To be compatible with Python 2.5, 2.6 and future versions of Python you can import it like this:

try:
    # location in Python 2.7 and 3.1
    from weakref import WeakSet
except ImportError:
    # separately installed
    from weakrefset import WeakSet

Release files for weakrefset 1.0.0

For a detailed explanation of source distributions (sdists) and built distributions (wheels), please see the package formats documentation.

Source distribution (sdist)

Source distribution for weakrefset 1.0.0
File Size Uploaded
weakrefset-1.0.0.tar.gz 2.8 kB Details

Release files / weakrefset-1.0.0.tar.gz

Download URL weakrefset-1.0.0.tar.gz
Size 2.8 kB
Tags Source
SHA-256 checksum
How to use checksums
1199c768153c2f4ac123f2a57e93a28185d843b09864ea3f4219d383d1cc16aa
BLAKE2b-256 checksum
How to use checksums
d2cd8c62dab782ac0abcacaff31a3c5919eb8cd42b6936ab70b0d8a0a221ec5e
Upload date
Uploaded using Trusted Publishing?
What is trusted publishing?
No

Release history Release notifications | RSS feed

This release

1.0.0 This release

1 release file

Anthropic, PBC Visionary sponsor Bloomberg Visionary sponsor Hudson River Trading Visionary sponsor Meta Visionary sponsor NVIDIA Visionary sponsor Microsoft Sustainability sponsor Depot Continuous Integration AWS Cloud computing and Security Sponsor Datadog Monitoring Fastly CDN Google Download Analytics Sentry Error logging StatusPage Status page