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OK, then I am going to need a little guidance to dive into
this more since this is going into some murky waters for me.  =)

For the normal, non-evil case of an empty Python class
(``class Foo(object): pass``), I would think that accessing
__dict__ would fall through to the tp_getset for object, and
then fall to the same slot for type.  Now that is obviously
not happening since you get a straight dict back for that
attribute access and not a dict proxy as would be suggested
based on my logic listed above.

So, my question is, where is the code that handles fetching
Foo().__dict__?  And if you have an inkling of where I
should be looking in terms of possible refcounting additions
that would be great as well.