[lord trousers] >>> Is there a way I can get hold of these kinds of statistics for >>> debugging?
[Martin v. Löwis] >> This is best done when Python is build in debug mode. >> sys.gettotalrefcount then gives you the number of INCREF >> calls for which no DECREF has been made; you said that >> this shouldn't change. >> >> If it does change, sys.get_counts() will give you the >> number of objects per type. >> >> Furthermore, sys.getobjects() will give you a list of >> all objects allocated (excluding the result list). [lord trousers] > Wonderful! That's just what I was looking for. > > Is this kind of thing documented somewhere public? (As attributes that > only show up in the debug build, they aren't documented in the regular > library docs.) There might be more nifty goodies like this, and I'd > like to check them out. Actually, sys.getcounts() only exists in a COUNT_ALLOCS build (which can be combined with a debug build, but is not implied by a debug build). All that (and other esoterica) is documented in Misc/SpecialBuilds.txt, in any Python source distribution. The Python Windows installer does not contain that file. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
