Garbage Collection
The gc module
- Provides an API for controlling the garbage collector
import gc
gc.disable() # Turn off garbage collection
gc.enable() # Enable garbage collection
gc.collect() # Run full garbage collection step
gc.set_threshold(1000,10,10) # Set frequency of garbage collection
# Print list of uncollectable objects
print gc.garbage
# Print debugging information to find memory leaks
gc.set_debug(gc.DEBUG_LEAK)
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