[Python-Dev] special method lookup: how much do we care? (original) (raw)

Cesare Di Mauro cesare.dimauro at a-tono.com
Thu May 14 08:27:10 CEST 2009

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

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