Patch by Georg Brandl.

This changes the main documentation, doc strings, source code comments, and a
couple error messages in the test suite. In some cases the word was removed
or edited some other way to fix the grammar.

now accept the self and the dict keyword arguments.

Patch by Christie Wilson.

Issue #22116: C functions and methods (of the 'builtin_function_or_method' type) can now be weakref'ed.  Patch by Wei Wu.

when contain an id in form " at 0x...".

weakref callbacks.

This is 2e446e87ac5b except that collections/__init__.py has been
modified to import proxy from _weakref instead of weakref.  This
eliminates an import cycle which seems to cause a problem on Unix but
not Windows.

weakref callbacks.

Issue #16602: When a weakref's target was part of a long deallocation chain, the object could remain reachable through its weakref even though its refcount had dropped to zero.

Thanks to Eugene Toder for diagnosing and reporting the issue.

Issue #16602: When a weakref's target was part of a long deallocation chain, the object could remain reachable through its weakref even though its refcount had dropped to zero.

Thanks to Eugene Toder for diagnosing and reporting the issue.

Also add tests for hashing.

Also add tests for ordering and hashing.

Issue #14159: Fix the len() of weak containers (WeakSet, WeakKeyDictionary, WeakValueDictionary) to return a better approximation when some objects are dead or dying.
Moreover, the implementation is now O(1) rather than O(n).
Thanks to Yury Selivanov for reporting.

Issue #14159: Fix the len() of weak sets to return a better approximation when some objects are dead or dying.
Moreover, the implementation is now O(1) rather than O(n).
Thanks to Yury Selivanov for reporting.

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  r79165 | florent.xicluna | 2010-03-21 03:14:24 +0200 (Sun, 21 Mar 2010) | 2 lines

  #7092 - Silence more py3k deprecation warnings, using test_support.check_py3k_warnings() helper.
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  r79535 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-03-31 23:32:15 +0200 (mer., 31 mars 2010) | 5 lines

  Issue #8268: Old-style classes (not just instances) now support weak
  references.
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references.

A patch from Dave Malcolm.

mistake. ( It may come in for sure tough)

Issue #7105: Make WeakKeyDictionary and WeakValueDictionary robust against
the destruction of weakref'ed objects while iterating.

the destruction of weakref'ed objects while iterating.

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  r76395 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-11-18 21:00:02 -0600 (Wed, 18 Nov 2009) | 1 line

  #5037 proxy __unicode__ correctly
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  r76396 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-11-18 21:08:32 -0600 (Wed, 18 Nov 2009) | 10 lines

  fix __bytes__ handling here in py3x
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    r76395 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-11-18 21:00:02 -0600 (Wed, 18 Nov 2009) | 1 line

    #5037 proxy __unicode__ correctly
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  r76395 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-11-18 21:00:02 -0600 (Wed, 18 Nov 2009) | 1 line

  #5037 proxy __unicode__ correctly
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  r73715 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-07-01 01:06:06 +0200 (Mi, 01 Jul 2009) | 1 line

  convert old fail* assertions to assert*
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  r66337 | vinay.sajip | 2008-09-09 08:42:08 -0500 (Tue, 09 Sep 2008) | 1 line

  Issue #3809: Fixed spurious 'test.blah' file left behind by test_logging.
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  r66347 | georg.brandl | 2008-09-09 14:26:00 -0500 (Tue, 09 Sep 2008) | 2 lines

  Fix varname in docstring. #3822.
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  r66350 | georg.brandl | 2008-09-09 15:28:31 -0500 (Tue, 09 Sep 2008) | 2 lines

  #3472: update Mac-bundled Python version info.
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  r66352 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-09-09 15:55:01 -0500 (Tue, 09 Sep 2008) | 4 lines

  Fix #3634 invalid return value from _weakref.ref(Exception).__init__

  Reviewers: Amaury, Antoine, Benjamin
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  r66358 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-09-09 18:16:48 -0500 (Tue, 09 Sep 2008) | 1 line

  use the latest pygments version
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