Ref Count Checking

[Markus Schaber]

Hi,

Robin Becker <robin at jessikat.fsnet.co.uk> schrub:

> As part of an extension debugging exercise I printed refcounts
> relating to the structure
> ('a1', {'z1': 'az1'}, ['b1', ('c1', {'y1': 'ay1'}, ['d1'], None),
> 'e1'], None) either created directly in Python or by my extension.
> 
> 
> An earlier pass revealed values of decrementing values
> for the None output from the extension (it was stealing a None).
> After Correcting I'm still getting differences.
> In particular the strings az1, ay1, b1, c1, d1, e1 seem to have counts
> from the extension which are 3 lower than from the python version.
> 
> Is there any way to deduce what the python count should be?
> I'm assuming that a string like az1 is reasonably unique so there
> shouldn't be any question of a library reference.

As Strings are unique, and internalized, may be the module as such 
(compiled code) contains references to the strings?

markus
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