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590590 which ships with the standard distribution of Python.
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592592 immortal
593- If an object is immortal, its reference count is never modified, and
594- therefore it is never deallocated .
593+ * Immortal objects * are a CPython implementation detail introduced
594+ in :pep: ` 683 ` .
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596- Built-in strings and singletons are immortal objects. For example,
597- :const: `True ` and :const: `None ` singletons are immortal.
598-
599- See `PEP 683 – Immortal Objects, Using a Fixed Refcount
600- <https://peps.python.org/pep-0683/> `_ for more information.
596+ If an object is immortal, its :term: `reference count ` is never modified,
597+ and therefore it is never deallocated while the interpreter is running.
598+ For example, :const: `True ` and :const: `None ` are immortal in CPython.
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602600 immutable
603601 An object with a fixed value. Immutable objects include numbers, strings and
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