On Jan 8, 8:56 am, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > Le Fri, 08 Jan 2010 08:39:17 -0800, casevh a écrit : > > > > > Thanks for the reply. I realized that I missed one detail. The objects > > are created by the extension but are deleted by Python. I don't know > > that an object is no longer needed until its tp_dealloc is called. At > > that point, its reference count is 0. > > tuple objects and others already have such a caching scheme, so you could > download the Python source and look at e.g. Objects/tupleobject.c to see > how it's done. > > Regards > > Antoine.
Thanks. That's exactly the information I was looking for. casevh -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list