[Python-Dev] d.get_key(key) -> key?

[Guido van Rossum]

>     GvR> An occasional run through the 'interned' dict (in
>     GvR> stringobject.c) looking for strings with refcount 2 would do
>     GvR> this.  Maybe something for the gc module do handle as a
>     GvR> service whenever it runs its last-generation collection?
> 
> What about exposing _Py_ReleaseInternedStrings() to Python, say, from
> the gc module?

If it's going to be an exposed API, it will have to live in
stringobject.c, since the 'interned' dict is a static global there.

Wanna give it a crack?

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)