Fix a bug caused by the garbage collector clearing weakrefs too early. The
weakrefs in the ``tp_subclasses`` dictionary are needed in order to correctly
invalidate type caches (for example, by calling ``PyType_Modified()``).
Clearing weakrefs before calling finalizers causes the caches to not be
correctly invalidated. That can cause crashes since the caches can refer to
invalid objects. Defer the clearing of weakrefs without callbacks until after
finalizers are executed.
In cyclic gc, clear weakrefs to unreachable objects before allowing any
Python code (weakref callbacks or __del__ methods) to run.
This is a critical bugfix, affecting all versions of Python since weakrefs
were introduced. I'll backport to 2.3.
Also SF patch 843455.
This is a critical bugfix.
I'll backport to 2.3 maint, but not beyond that. The bugs this fixes
have been there since weakrefs were introduced.
