Unknown screen output of manually installed Python 2.7

Question

I installed Python 2.7 today using:

./configure --prefix=/home/zhanwu/local --enable-shared --enable-profiling --with-pydebug
make install

Answer 1

You get these because you configured the build with --with-pydebug. They denote the number of references Python is currently keeping track of. To get rid of them, configure without --with-pydebug.