Getting the reference count

[Just van Rossum]

Makhno wrote:
> 
> Is it possible to get the reference count of a PyObject* object?
> I'm surre it must be, but I can't see it documented anywhere.
> 
> Something similar to Perl's SvREFCNT() Macro would be great.

sys.getrefcount(object)

Note that this always returns one more than the actual value, as
there's always an additional ref when inside sys.getrefcount().

Just