[Python-Dev] special method lookup: how much do we care?

[Cesare Di Mauro]

On Sun, May 10, 2009 11:51PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> However lots of developers rely on CPython ref counting as well, no
> matter how many times they're told not to do that if they want to
> support alternative interpreters.
>
> Cheers,
> Nick.

>From socket.py:

# Wrapper around platform socket objects. This implements
# a platform-independent dup() functionality. The
# implementation currently relies on reference counting
# to close the underlying socket object.
class _socketobject(object):


You don't know how much time I've spent trying to understand why
test_httpserver.py hanged indefinitely when I was experimenting with new
opcodes in my VM.

Cheers,
Cesare