Python vs Java garbage collection?

[Robert Oschler]

"Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote in message
news:au84g9$qml$07$1 at news.t-online.com...
> Erik Max Francis wrote:
>
> std::auto_ptr is no reference counting entity (it does not count
> references). Addition of reference counting entities would not change
> anything for Python, atleast CPython already has reference counting
> entities (*all* entities are reference counted).
>

Sorry for the confusion, I said auto_ptr when I meant shared_ptr which is
reference counted.

thx