From: Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 02:36:47 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: rewrite to be nice to other implementations
X-Git-Tag: v2.7a1~291
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ff81cb812dac5c6f01006fd3d39b99bba6ffc263;p=python

rewrite to be nice to other implementations
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diff --git a/Doc/library/weakref.rst b/Doc/library/weakref.rst
index c800ecd31e..1c35493c2e 100644
--- a/Doc/library/weakref.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/weakref.rst
@@ -77,8 +77,8 @@ 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:`long` do not support
-weak references even when subclassed (those types implemented as a
-:ctype:`PyVarObject`).
+weak references even when subclassed (This is an implementation detail and may
+be different across various Python implementations.).
 
 Extension types can easily be made to support weak references; see
 :ref:`weakref-support`.