[Tutor] Memory Leak?

[Tony Cappellini]

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Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 16:18:23 -0400
From: "Michael Langford" <mlangford.cs03 at gtalumni.org>
Subject: Re: [Tutor] Memory Leak?
To: "Keith Suda-Cederquist" <kdsudac at yahoo.com>
Cc: Python Tutor List <tutor at python.org>
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>>You can always make a subclass of the classes you're thinking aren't being
>>garbage collected and put a print statement in their __del__ functions to
>>show you when they are. That will show you if/which objects aren't being
>>deleted.

Is this reliable or will this just confuse the issue?

Python in a Nutshell states "While gc itself can automatically fix many
leaks (as long as you avoid defining __del__ in your classes, since the
existence of __del__ can block cyclic garbage collection), your program runs
faster if it avoids creating cyclic garbage in the first place
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