weakref to enable gc + setting children with iterable + fix loading state via jupyter.widget.control + fix various tooltips #3893
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This PR consists of several enhancements/fixes:
Childrenfor validating box.children.No breaking changes are foreseen.
Garbage collection
A weak reference is used for the comm message removing internal strong references.
A new function
enable_weakreferencereplaces the global_instancesdict with a weak value dictionary moving any existing mappings. This removes the last strong reference to objects in theipywidgetsmodule enabling automatic garbage collection once the user generated strong references are removed.The inverse function
disable_weakreferencedoes the opposite, restoring a normal dictionary and copying existing mappings.Box.children
Box.children has new features:
Other changes
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