Martin v. Löwis wrote: > Frank Millman wrote: > > In principle I agree. My concern was that I might have inadvertently > > done something wrong (e.g. left a reference dangling) which would > > prevent gc from removing all objects which I wanted to be removed. > > Depends on what it really is that you want to know. > > If you want to find out if there are objects which you hold onto > too long, you can look at len(gc.get_objects()) from time to > time. This won't be all objects, but just the container objects. > If you see the number growing over time, you have a leak.
Thank you - this is what I wanted to know. > > You could then also categorize this by type, e.g. > > frequency = {} > for o in gc.get_objects(): > o = o.__class__.__name__ > frequency[o] = frequency.get(o, 0) + 1 > print sorted(frequency.iteritems(), key=operator.itemgetter(1), > reverse=1) > Very useful. Thanks. Frank -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list