[3.12] gh-120937: Reference weakref from the __del__ documentation (GH-120940) (#121062)

gh-120937: Reference weakref from the `__del__` documentation (GH-120940)
(cherry picked from commit 1c13b29)

Co-authored-by: chaen <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Hugo van Kemenade <[email protected]>

Author: 3 people

Doc/reference/datamodel.rst

@@ -1643,6 +1643,8 @@ Basic customization
 
    It is not guaranteed that :meth:`__del__` methods are called for objects
    that still exist when the interpreter exits.
+   :class:`weakref.finalize` provides a straightforward way to register
+   a cleanup function to be called when an object is garbage collected.
 
    .. note::