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authorFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2002-06-20 21:36:19 (GMT)
committerFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2002-06-20 21:36:19 (GMT)
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Fix the docstring for sys.getrefcount().
Closes SF bug #571759.
Diffstat (limited to 'Python')
-rw-r--r--Python/sysmodule.c5
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