Maybe somebody can enlighten me here. I can't figure out why doing a rich comparison on my object decreases the total reference count by 1. Linked is the minimal test case with a C exension that compiles under both Python 2.6 and 3.1. No external dependencies, except a DEBUG build of Python to see the effect (Py_REF_DEBUG defined).
http://cdn.ghaering.de/foo.c http://cdn.ghaering.de/setup.py Builtin types like list, dict, etc. don't seem to have the same effect. I've also run the test a few thousand times; then the total refcount is like -50000, but Python does not crash. Also if I print all objects and their respective refcounts using the gc module, none of them seems to have a negative refcount, but the total refcount is still way negative. How could that be? -- Gerhard -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
