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Add a reference counting tutorial.
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Update Doc/extending/error-handling.rst 
Co-authored-by: Petr Viktorin <encukou@gmail.com>
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Expand Up @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ The exception indicator
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Python has a thread-local indicator for the state of the current exception.
This indicator is just a ``PyObject *`` referencing an instance of
This indicator is a ``PyObject *`` referencing an instance of
:class:`BaseException`. You can think of this like the ``errno`` variable in C.

If a C API function fails, it may set the exception indicator to a Python
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