On 31 May 2012 11:57, psaff...@googlemail.com wrote:
> Thanks for all the responses.
>
> It looks like none of the BeautifulSoup objects have __del__ methods, so I
> don't think that can be the problem.
>
> To answer your other question, guppy was the best match I came up with
> when looking for a
Thanks for all the responses.
It looks like none of the BeautifulSoup objects have __del__ methods, so I
don't think that can be the problem.
To answer your other question, guppy was the best match I came up with when
looking for a memory profile for Python (or more specifically "Heapy"):
http
Steven D'Aprano writes:
> The destructor doesn't get called into the last reference is gone.
And it's important to note that the destructor doesn't get called
*immediately* that happens; rather, the destructor will be called *some
time after* the last reference to the object is gone.
In short:
On Wed, 30 May 2012 16:56:21 +, John Gordon wrote:
> In <6e534661-0823-4c42-8f60-3052e43b7...@googlegroups.com>
> "psaff...@googlemail.com" writes:
>
>> How do I force the memory for these soup objects to be freed?
>
> Have you tried deleting them, using the "del" command?
del doesn't actu
In <6e534661-0823-4c42-8f60-3052e43b7...@googlegroups.com>
"psaff...@googlemail.com" writes:
> How do I force the memory for these soup objects to be freed?
Have you tried deleting them, using the "del" command?
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On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
> 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
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 gupp
I am writing a screen scraping application using BeautifulSoup:
http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/
(which is fantastic, by the way).
I have an object that has two methods, each of which loads an HTML document and
scrapes out some information, putting strings from the HTML documents i
