On Sep 6, 2005, at 12:13 PM, Steve Holden wrote: > 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.
Personally I've found that reference counting makes Python really easy to integrate with other systems that may or may not also use reference counting. It is somewhat of a chore to incref/decref all over the place, but you *are* programming in C. -bob _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com