why cannot assign to function call

Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch bj_666 at gmx.net
Wed Jan 7 09:37:09 EST 2009


On Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:45:00 -0800, sturlamolden wrote:

> On Jan 7, 2:02 am, Steven D'Aprano
> <ste... at REMOVE.THIS.cybersource.com.au> wrote:
> 
>> In Python code, there are no references and no dereferencing.
> 
> The why does CPython keep track of reference counts?

Show me the *Python* code that does that.  Using reference counting for 
memory management is an implementation detail.  It's possible to use 
other garbage collectors without the need of reference counting.

Ciao,
	Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch



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