Why so many references to global variables?

[Erik Max Francis]

J-P wrote:

> Well, sys.getrefcount() does tell me there are 3 millions  references
> to it and other globals. Even though this doesn't eat up all my memory
> (how large is a reference object in Python?), ...

Reference counts are just maintained internally with a single number
that's incremented or decremented.

> I definitely think
> there's
> something fishy with keeping that many references to global variables
> that appear here and there in the script.

Yes, it does.  It strongly suggests that the fishiness is in your C
extension.

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