[Python-bugs-list] Reference counting problem? (PR#338)

[gpk@bell-labs.com]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> 
> > Python 1.6 seems to have some kind of reference counting problem.
>
> Without the whole program and its input data it's hard to debug this.
> Does your program use any nonstandard extension modules?  That's where
> I'd start looking... 

It does.  Some of the input data
is a copy of a directory the nonstandard module produces.
I'll look at the nonstandard module, and also see if I
can isolate the problem to a reasonable-size chunk of code.