refcount

[Christian Heimes]

Simon Pickles wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is is possible to access the refcount for an object?
> 
> Ideally, I am looking to see if I have a refcount of 1 before calling del

Help on built-in function getrefcount in module sys:

getrefcount(...)
    getrefcount(object) -> integer

Return the reference count of object.  The count returned is generally
one higher than you might expect, because it includes the (temporary)
reference as an argument to getrefcount().

Christian