alt Hacker NewsFor the same reason you need weakref in Python, to handle circular references in memory managed via reference counting GC algorithm.
https://docs.python.org/3/library/weakref.html
Anyone that thinks Python is "simple", to come back to some of the suggestions on how it is easier than C++, they really should learn the language reference, standard library, and CPython FFI manuals.
> Anyone that thinks Python is "simple", to come back to some of the suggestions on how it is easier than C++, they really should learn the language reference, standard library, and CPython FFI manuals.
Python is more "simple" in the sense that
- it is more forgiving with respect to badly written code,
- it has collected less historical baggage than C++.
Otherwise I agree.