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| author | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> | 2002-06-20 21:35:02 (GMT) |
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| committer | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> | 2002-06-20 21:35:02 (GMT) |
| commit | ed06e07dc93d237bdcb36bb708fab91a8c031c06 (patch) | |
| tree | d589ebcfcc461ef1b091c6b5686d25b308407134 /Python/sysmodule.c | |
| parent | 950fc70f7cbdbdb271f00afac0fc48e23bfc9d3d (diff) | |
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Fix the docstring for sys.getrefcount().
Closes SF bug #571759.
Diffstat (limited to 'Python/sysmodule.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | Python/sysmodule.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Python/sysmodule.c b/Python/sysmodule.c index 581a19b..dbe73e7 100644 --- a/Python/sysmodule.c +++ b/Python/sysmodule.c @@ -466,8 +466,9 @@ sys_gettotalrefcount(PyObject *self) static char getrefcount_doc[] = "getrefcount(object) -> integer\n\ \n\ -Return the current reference count for the object. This includes the\n\ -temporary reference in the argument list, so it is at least 2."; +Return the reference count of object. The count returned is generally\n\ +one higher than you might expect, because it includes the (temporary)\n\ +reference as an argument to getrefcount()."; #ifdef COUNT_ALLOCS static PyObject * |