On Wed, 30 May 2012 09:01:20 -0700, psaff...@googlemail.com wrote: > However, I've found that using guppy, after the methods have returned > most of the memory is being taken up with BeautifulSoup objects of one > type or another. I'm not declaring BeautifulSoup objects anywhere else.
What's guppy? > I've tried assigning None into the "soup" objects at the end of the > method calls and calling garbage collection manually, but this doesn't > seem to help. I'd like to find out exactly what object "owns" the > various BeautifulSoup structures, but I'm quite a new guppy user and I > can't figure out how to do this. > > How do I force the memory for these soup objects to be freed? Is there > antyhing else I should be looking at to find out the cause of these > problems? If objects aren't being garbage collected, you probably have cycles of objects with __del__ methods. Python's reference garbage collector can't delete objects in cycles, and the alternative garbage collector can't delete objects with __del__ methods. Try removing the __del__ methods, and see if that fixes the problem. Also, see the gc module. http://docs.python.org/library/gc.html -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
