Hello everybody I am trying to make sure that my (non trivial) C module is cleaning up properly after itself, and consequently I've built python with --py-debug which, besides allowing me to use certain functions, it also prints the reference count at the end.
I am finding, however, that the reference count on exit seems to increase by 1 every time I create one of my objects, poring over the output of the debugging functions seems to imply that the only thing that changes is the refcount of [somenumber] '<dummy key>' where somenumber seems proportional to the number of objects I create, if I create n+1 objects, somenumber increases by 1. Looking at the docs this seems related to empty dictionaries, but I'm really stumped at the moment. Out of curiosity I also did this stupid test thinking it would return the same refcount, but evidently it doesn't: Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> a=1 [17214 refs] >>> (ctrl-D) [17214 refs] [6606 refs] Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> a=1 [17214 refs] >>> b=2 [17217 refs] >>> (ctrl-D) [17217 refs] [6608 refs] as you can see just assigning another variable causes the refcount to remain higher when python exits. Is this something I should be worried about at all? I am new to writing python C extensions, and that's why I never really worried about all this before; apologies if my question is obvious and/or trivial... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
