forking + stdout = confusion

[Michael Hudson]

clarence at silcom.com (Clarence Gardner) writes:
> Clarence Gardner (clarence at silcom.com) wrote:
> : However, your first thought also works, with the same caveat about stderr.
> : stdin, stdout, and stderr all have the __xxx__ copy in the sys module
> : (which I was not aware of).
> 
> Mea culpa.  The os.close() *is* still necessary.  Is there yet another
> copy of these file objects?  I tried to find that function that returns
> the reference count, but don't see it in the manual.

It's sys.refcount:

Python 1.5.2 (#2, Apr 14 1999, 13:02:03)  [GCC egcs-2.91.66 19990314 (egcs-1.1.2  on linux2
Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
>>> import sys
>>> sys.getrefcount (sys.stdout )
5

Five! I don't know where all of those are...

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