"""Weak reference support for Python. This module is an implementation of PEP 205: http://python.sourceforge.net/peps/pep-0205.html """ # Naming convention: Variables named "wr" are weak reference objects; # they are called this instead of "ref" to avoid name collisions with # the module-global ref() function imported from _weakref. import UserDict from _weakref import \ getweakrefcount, \ getweakrefs, \ ref, \ proxy, \ ReferenceError, \ CallableProxyType, \ ProxyType, \ ReferenceType ProxyTypes = (ProxyType, CallableProxyType) __all__ = ["ref", "proxy", "getweakrefcount", "getweakrefs", "WeakKeyDictionary", "ReferenceType", "ProxyType", "CallableProxyType", "ProxyTypes", "WeakValueDictionary"] class WeakValueDictionary(UserDict.UserDict): """Mapping class that references values weakly. Entries in the dictionary will be discarded when no strong reference to the value exists anymore """ # We inherit the constructor without worrying about the input # dictionary; since it uses our .update() method, we get the right # checks (if the other dictionary is a WeakValueDictionary, # objects are unwrapped on the way out, and we always wrap on the # way in). def __getitem__(self, key): o = self.data.get(key)() if o is None: raise KeyError, key else: return o def __repr__(self): return "" % id(self) def __setitem__(self, key, value): def remove(o, data=self.data, key=key): del data[key] self.data[key] = ref(value, remove) def copy(self): new = WeakValueDictionary() for key, wr in self.data.items(): o = wr() if o is not None: new[key] = o return new def get(self, key, default=None): try: wr = self.data[key] except KeyError: return default else: o = wr() if o is None: # This should only happen return default else: return o def items(self): L = [] for key, wr in self.data.items(): o = wr() if o is not None: L.append((key, o)) return L def popitem(self): while 1: key, wr = self.data.popitem() o = wr() if o is not None: return key, o def setdefault(self, key, default): try: wr = self.data[key] except KeyError: def remove(o, data=self.data, key=key): del data[key] self.data[key] = ref(default, remove) return default else: return wr() def update(self, dict): d = self.data for key, o in dict.items(): def remove(o, data=d, key=key): del data[key] d[key] = ref(o, remove) def values(self): L = [] for wr in self.data.values(): o = wr() if o is not None: L.append(o) return L class WeakKeyDictionary(UserDict.UserDict): """ Mapping class that references keys weakly. Entries in the dictionary will be discarded when there is no longer a strong reference to the key. This can be used to associate additional data with an object owned by other parts of an application without adding attributes to those objects. This can be especially useful with objects that override attribute accesses. """ def __init__(self, dict=None): self.data = {} if dict is not None: self.update(dict) def remove(k, data=self.data): del data[k] self._remove = remove def __getitem__(self, key): return self.data[ref(key)] def __repr__(self): return "" % id(self) def __setitem__(self, key, value): self.data[ref(key, self._remove)] = value def copy(self): new = WeakKeyDictionary() for key, value in self.data.items(): o = key() if o is not None: new[o] = value return new def get(self, key, default=None): return self.data.get(ref(key),default) def has_key(self, key): return self.data.has_key(ref(key)) def items(self): L = [] for key, value in self.data.items(): o = key() if o is not None: L.append((o, value)) return L def keys(self): L = [] for wr in self.data.keys(): o = wr() if o is not None: L.append(o) return L def popitem(self): while 1: key, value = self.data.popitem() o = key() if o is not None: return o, value def setdefault(self, key, default): return self.data.setdefault(ref(key, self._remove),default) def update(self, dict): d = self.data for key, value in dict.items(): d[ref(key, self._remove)] = value # no longer needed del UserDict