STINNER Victor <vstin...@python.org> added the comment:
> I think the ob_refcnt Field should be 1 in both cases. Or why is the refcnt > here so high? Python has singletons for short strings: empty string and 1-character latin1 characters (unicode range [U+0000; U+00FF]). Examples: >>> sys.getrefcount("") 103 >>> sys.getrefcount("a") 11 It's not a bug, but an optimization to reduce the memory footprint ;-) ---------- nosy: +vstinner resolution: -> not a bug stage: -> resolved status: open -> closed _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue39109> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com