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authorMiss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>2019-06-15 04:50:11 -0700
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2019-06-15 04:50:11 -0700
commit30cac20101717e7cbb13db470787f8437bd98b04 (patch)
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parent5e97450d83d4f4240315f46419686ec193273e13 (diff)
downloadcpython-git-30cac20101717e7cbb13db470787f8437bd98b04.tar.gz
Update weakref.rst (GH-14098)
(cherry picked from commit f475729a714a9fb13672f8989c4abbafb783e09b) Co-authored-by: Géry Ogam <gery.ogam@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/Doc/library/weakref.rst b/Doc/library/weakref.rst
index 7f3d267d74..8d8a0b5df2 100644
--- a/Doc/library/weakref.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/weakref.rst
@@ -65,8 +65,8 @@ exposed by the :mod:`weakref` module for the benefit of advanced uses.
Not all objects can be weakly referenced; those objects which can include class
instances, functions written in Python (but not in C), instance methods, sets,
-frozensets, some :term:`file objects <file object>`, :term:`generator`\s, type
-objects, sockets, arrays, deques, regular expression pattern objects, and code
+frozensets, some :term:`file objects <file object>`, :term:`generators <generator>`,
+type objects, sockets, arrays, deques, regular expression pattern objects, and code
objects.
.. versionchanged:: 3.2
@@ -80,9 +80,10 @@ support weak references but can add support through subclassing::
obj = Dict(red=1, green=2, blue=3) # this object is weak referenceable
-Other built-in types such as :class:`tuple` and :class:`int` do not support weak
-references even when subclassed (This is an implementation detail and may be
-different across various Python implementations.).
+.. impl-detail::
+
+ Other built-in types such as :class:`tuple` and :class:`int` do not support weak
+ references even when subclassed.
Extension types can easily be made to support weak references; see
:ref:`weakref-support`.