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Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012 13:46:02 +1100
Subject: Re: except clause syntax question
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On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> wrote:
> Incidentally, I *think* that any correctly written C code attempting
> to nest a tuple inside itself would make the reference count of the
> tuple be at least 2 at the time of the call, and so it would fail.

Good, nice that that's certain :)

Might be worth moving the "[b]ecause tuples are supposed to be
immutable" warning up to the top of the page then, since the bulk of
it applies to all those functions and not just resize.

ChrisA