Help on sys.getrefcount

[Christoph Becker-Freyseng]

Michael Hudson wrote:
> Christoph Becker-Freyseng <christoph at mmc-startup.com> writes:
> 
> 
>>I don't see why the refcount is so high (7 or 8 instead 3).
> 
> 
> One character strings are cached.
> 
Interresting :-)
> Also, interning.
> 
That's an other point I didn't think about when I wrote this test-program.

So when I use "multicharacter" string I still have a refcount of 6 but 
that's fine with interning.

> Basically, don't worry about it for immutable objects.  If you try
> lists or something, you'll see results closer to what you expect.
>

Yes using e.g. a lambda-function or a non-string and non-number object 
refcount is 3.

Thank You very much,
    Christoph Becker-Freyseng