weakref list in python

Question

I\'m in need of a list of weak references that deletes items when they die. Currently the only way I have of doing this is to keep flushing the list (removing dead references ma

Answer 1

Why can't you just do it like this:

import weakref

class WeakList(list):
    def append(self, item):
        list.append(self, weakref.ref(item, self.remove))

And then do similar for __iadd__, extend etc. Works for me.