[lxml-dev] Weakref support?

[Christian Zagrodnick]

On 20.07.2009, at 09:21, Stefan Behnel wrote:

>
> Christian Zagrodnick wrote:
>> On 2009-07-19 15:25:52 +0200, Stefan Behnel said:
>>> Is there a specific use case you have in mind?
>>
>> Actually all I'd need is a reference to the tree. I don't think
>> weak-refs to all elements are necessary or useful. Well, maybe they
>> are, but I don't need them :)
>
> That sounds better. :)

Okay, just for the fun of it I added weakref to element.

With   : Ran 1025 tests in 15.731s
Without: Ran 1025 tests in 15.584s

In the latter case the weakref test fails of course. Patch attached.

I don't know what the memory implications are, though?


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