Garbage collection questions

[Sophie Coon]

Hi,
I have problems to understand how the garbage collector works.
If I understood well the documentation a collectable objects is an
unreachable objects that will be garbage collected. So if I do a
gc.collect() and it returns 280 but the gc.garbage list is empty that
means that the memory taken by these 280 objects has been freed ?
Thanks for your help.
Sophie
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