Benjamin wrote:
> On Jan 29, 5:46 am, Christian Heimes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Simon Pickles wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> Is is possible to access the refcount for an object?
>>> Ideally, I am looking to see if I have a refcount of 1 before calling del
>> Help on built-in function getrefcount in module sys:
>>
>> getrefcount(...)
>>     getrefcount(object) -> integer
>>
>> Return the reference count of object.  The count returned is generally
>> one higher than you might expect, because it includes the (temporary)
>> reference as an argument to getrefcount().
> Are there any cases when it wouldn't?

Well, as long as the object is named "object" in sys.getrefcount's 
namespace, there's at least that one reference to it...

        Mel.
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