Skip Montanaro skip at mojam.com
Wed Feb 9 11:00:54 EST 2000

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The variable char isn't interned, while the string literal "i" is.  Try:

    for char in "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz":
	print char, sys.getrefcount(intern(char))

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