On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:19:41 +0200, Alf P. Steinbach wrote: > But for a literal context-free interpretation e.g. the 'sys.getrefcount' > function is not documented as CPython only and thus an implementation > that didn't do reference counting would not be a conforming Python > implementation.
Since Jython and IronPython are conforming Python implementations, and Guido has started making policy decisions specifically to support these other implementations (e.g. the language feature moratorium, PEP 3003), I think we can assume that this is a documentation bug. However, a Python implementation that always returned 0 for sys.getrefcount would technically satisfy the word of the documentation, if not the spirit. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
