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Is there a way to get a proper reference for an object for which I get a weakref proxy?
I've gone through the weakref module's documentation and coulnd't get an answer there, or through poking a weakproxy object manually.
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__weakref__ is just an opaque object that references all the weak references to the current object. In actual fact it's an instance of weakref (or sometimes weakproxy ) which is both a weak reference to the object and part of a doubly linked list to all weak references for that object.
weakref.proxy(object[,callback])Returns a proxy to the object that uses a weak reference. The returned object has type ProxyType or CallableProxyType, depending on if the object is callable. These objects are not hashable.
Although there's nothing exposed directly on the proxy object itself, it is possible to obtain a reference by abusing the __self__ attribute of bound methods:
obj_ref = proxy.__repr__.__self__
Using __repr__ here is just a random choice, although if you want a generic method it'd be better to use a method that all objects should have.
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