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Author gvanrossum
Recipients Mark.Shannon, brandtbucher, eric.snow, gvanrossum, mdk, miss-islington, vstinner
Date 2022-03-28.14:14:33
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Please don’t try to “fix” anything. The value is only useful if you
understand the implementation. It should map straightforwardly to what’s in
memory.

On Mon, Mar 28, 2022 at 05:16 STINNER Victor <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:

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> STINNER Victor <vstinner@python.org> added the comment:
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> > Should sys.getrefcount try to "fix" the value (...)
>
> https://peps.python.org/pep-0683/ would make it possible. Right now, I
> don't think that it's possible.
>
> Right now, a refcount of 1000000210 can be a real value, or it can be an
> immortal object.
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