pythongh-120937: Reference weakref from the __del__ documentation (p…

…ythonGH-120940) (cherry picked from commit 1c13b29) Co-authored-by: chaen <[email protected]> Co-authored-by: Hugo van Kemenade <[email protected]>
miss-islington · Jun 26, 2024 · 1950dd4 · 1950dd4
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@@ -1664,6 +1664,8 @@ Basic customization
 
    It is not guaranteed that :meth:`__del__` methods are called for objects
    that still exist when the interpreter exits.
+   :class:`weakref.finalize` provides a straightforward way to register
+   a cleanup function to be called when an object is garbage collected.
 
    .. note::