[SciPy-User] Memory Leak? Problems with deleting numpy arrays.

[Christopher Barker]

On 11/5/10 9:38 AM, Sebastian Walter wrote:
> In Python it is always one larger than it should be:
>
> In [17]: import sys
>
> In [18]: import numpy
>
> In [19]: x = numpy.array([1,2,3])
>
> In [20]: sys.getrefcount(x)
> Out[20]: 2

That's because the refcount is incremented when x is passed to the 
getrefcount() function itself -- it will drop back to one when the 
function is done running.

-Chris

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