I was seeing how many reference counts some objects had in a fresh terminal session and was quickly surprised by the behavior I saw. It is telling me that 1, 'hello', and 55 all have a reference count of 4294967295, which happens to be the maximum value for 32-bit unsigned integer. Even more interesting, the count for 327 was only 3. Does anyone have any idea what could be going on here? Here's a photo of my terminal. I am using Python 3.12.6. Continue reading...
