char** to {'':('',)}

[Skip Montanaro]

    >> 2) It doesn't say for all functions whether or not they increment
    >> refcounts of objects passed to them, viz. PyDict_SetString().

If you want the nitty gritty details, check out Doc/api/refcounts.dat in
your source distribution.  I believe Fred has the docs set up so that they
annotate whether or not the ref counts of various parameters and return
values change.

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