On Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:45:00 -0800, sturlamolden wrote: > On Jan 7, 2:02 am, Steven D'Aprano > <ste...@remove.this.cybersource.com.au> wrote: > >> In Python code, there are no references and no dereferencing. > > The why does CPython keep track of reference counts?
Show me the *Python* code that does that. Using reference counting for memory management is an implementation detail. It's possible to use other garbage collectors without the need of reference counting. Ciao, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list