Help on sys.getrefcount

[Michael Hudson]

Christoph Becker-Freyseng <christoph at mmc-startup.com> writes:

> I don't see why the refcount is so high (7 or 8 instead 3).

One character strings are cached.

Also, interning.

Basically, don't worry about it for immutable objects.  If you try
lists or something, you'll see results closer to what you expect.

Cheers,
M.

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