[Matrix-SIG] Numeric Nits

David Ascher da@ski.org
Tue, 22 Jun 1999 11:37:22 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)


On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Rick White wrote:
> >   a = arange(10)
> >   b = a * 3
> >   return a, b
> >
> >At the point of the PyArray_Multiply, the refcount of its first argument
> >(a) is 1. However, it is not a temporary variable.  Or did I miss
> >something?
> 
> I think the refcount for (a) would be 2, one for the reference
> held by the variable 'a' and one for the reference on the stack.

Gotcha.  You're right, of course.  

--david