[issue25273] Console interpreter holds a hard link on last displayed object

Changes by Vladislav Ignatenko : -- components: Interpreter Core nosy: GPCracker priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Console interpreter holds a hard link on last displayed object type: behavior versions: Python 2.7

[issue25273] Console interpreter holds a hard link on last displayed object

New submission from Vladislav Ignatenko: Hi everyone, I've faced with python interpreter behavior I didn't expected when I was using code.InteractiveConsole in my remote python console. I have also detected this behavior on local python interpreter. Python 2.7.10 (default, May 23 2015,

[issue25273] Console interpreter holds a hard link on last displayed object

eryksun added the comment: In interactive mode the extra reference is held by the "_" built-in variable. >>> a 'test string A' >>> del __builtin__._; sys.getrefcount(a) - 1 1 Look at the following disassembled code, compiled in the 'single' interactive mode: >>>