[Python-Dev] reference counting in Py3K (original) (raw)

Steve Holden steve at holdenweb.com
Tue Sep 6 21:13:11 CEST 2005

Nick Jacobson wrote:

While we're on the subject of Python 3000, what's the chance that reference counting when calling C functions from Python will go away?

To me this is one of the few annoyances I have with Python. I know that Ruby somehow gets around the need for ref. counting. Reference counting is an implementation detail, and isn't a part of the language specifications. I have no idea why you find it so annoying, but there are other implementations (Jython, Iron Python) that don't use it.

regards Steve

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