[docs] [issue18085] Verifying refcounts.dat

[Skip Montanaro]

Skip Montanaro added the comment:

> Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment:
>
> Were I adding that today, I'd use a more verbose (but more standard)
> format, like configparser or JSON.  If any further use is going to be
> made of it, that should be considered.  Colon-delimited is a pretty
> fragile format.

Given the context, it should be okay until Python is rewritten in C++. :-)

I don't know where this is consumed.  Presumably by Sphinx somewhere.

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