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which ships with the standard distribution of Python.

immortal
If an object is immortal, its reference count is never modified, and
therefore it is never deallocated.
*Immortal objects* are a CPython implementation detail introduced
in :pep:`683`.

Built-in strings and singletons are immortal objects. For example,
:const:`True` and :const:`None` singletons are immortal.

See `PEP 683 – Immortal Objects, Using a Fixed Refcount
<https://peps.python.org/pep-0683/>`_ for more information.
If an object is immortal, its :term:`reference count` is never modified,
and therefore it is never deallocated while the interpreter is running.
For example, :const:`True` and :const:`None` are immortal in CPython.

immutable
An object with a fixed value. Immutable objects include numbers, strings and
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