On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 8:29 AM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 10:12 PM, Larry Martell <larry.mart...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 12:57 AM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 5:53 AM, Larry Martell <larry.mart...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>>> And I can see it getting larger and larger. But I want to see what it >>>> is that is causing this. My thought was to put all the objects in a >>>> dict with their sizes and compare them as the program runs and report >>>> on the one that are growing. But I can't get the name of the object >>>> from gc.get_objects only the id. >>> >>> Coming right back to the beginning here: What do you expect the name >>> of an object to be? >> >> The name of the variable in the program, e.g. sql, db_conn, rows, etc. > > Name bindings are one-way. You can't go from the object to its name. > An object may have zero, one, or multiple names; and function-local > names could be used more than once.
Yeah, that makes sense. > If you want an object to have a name for tracing purposes, you'll have > to give it one as some sort of attribute. A good trick to know. Thanks. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
