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| author | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> | 2002-06-20 21:36:19 (GMT) |
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| committer | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> | 2002-06-20 21:36:19 (GMT) |
| commit | ba3ff1ba7ba9b3920bafc1722c62b8abdb77b93c (patch) | |
| tree | fb4673d5a6cdba21337a2f96e11e9640bca3fad0 /Python/sysmodule.c | |
| parent | e36a8e8201fdacb04d75dce83662a735afe91588 (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 04c643f..ebf7f39 100644 --- a/Python/sysmodule.c +++ b/Python/sysmodule.c @@ -482,8 +482,9 @@ sys_gettotalrefcount(PyObject *self) PyDoc_STRVAR(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 |