Why am I getting "[10263 refs]"?

[Christian Heimes]

Russ P. wrote:
> I am running 2.5.2 on Red Hat 5. I am getting many printouts of
> reference counts, such as
> 
> [10263 refs]
> 
> I do not recall ever seeing this until recently. Why am I getting
> this? Thanks.

You are using a debug build of Python.

Christian