Reference Tracking

[Matt Bergin]

Alex Martelli wrote:
...
> In your case, you were talking about tracking objects of a specific
> different type -- not ones that Python will implicitly cache and
> reuse, such as small integers.  Thus, you do not necessarily need
> to work with _changes_ in refcounts rather than with refcounts
> directly -- I think using the refcounts directly may be simpler.

Thanks very much for putting up with my questions! Hopefully I'll be 
answering on comp.lang.python someday...

-- 
Matt Bergin