Merge pull request #19456 from BvB93/weakref

TST: Fix a `GenericAlias` test failure for python 3.9.0

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/numpy/typing/tests/test_generic_alias.py b/numpy/typing/tests/test_generic_alias.py
index 538d7eae5..3021d9859 100644
--- a/numpy/typing/tests/test_generic_alias.py
+++ b/numpy/typing/tests/test_generic_alias.py
@@ -66,7 +66,6 @@ class TestGenericAlias:
         ("__call__", lambda n: n(shape=(1,), dtype=np.int64, buffer=BUFFER)),
         ("subclassing", lambda n: _get_subclass_mro(n)),
         ("pickle", lambda n: n == pickle.loads(pickle.dumps(n))),
-        ("__weakref__", lambda n: n == weakref.ref(n)()),
     ])
     def test_pass(self, name: str, func: FuncType) -> None:
         """Compare `types.GenericAlias` with its numpy-based backport.
@@ -81,6 +80,14 @@ class TestGenericAlias:
             value_ref = func(NDArray_ref)
             assert value == value_ref
 
+    def test_weakref(self) -> None:
+        """Test ``__weakref__``."""
+        value = weakref.ref(NDArray)()
+
+        if sys.version_info >= (3, 9, 1):  # xref bpo-42332
+            value_ref = weakref.ref(NDArray_ref)()
+            assert value == value_ref
+
     @pytest.mark.parametrize("name", GETATTR_NAMES)
     def test_getattr(self, name: str) -> None:
         """Test that `getattr` wraps around the underlying type,