Oct-14-2021, 05:57 PM
once an object is no longer referenced, it can eventually be deleted. i see that, at least for CPython, this really does get delayed. is there a way to speed this up, at least for one specific object?
Oct-14-2021, 05:57 PM
Oct-14-2021, 06:48 PM
Oct-14-2021, 10:00 PM
unfortunately, i don't have time, right now, to watch that whole video. maybe later tonight.
i have heard that Python calls these references, not pointers, so i am wondering why she is calling them pointers.
i have heard that Python calls these references, not pointers, so i am wondering why she is calling them pointers.
Oct-15-2021, 06:34 AM
You can manually run a garbage collection
If I had this statement in my code, I'd rather investigate if I'm misunderstanding something.
import gc gc.collect()Relevant use cases for this don't seem easy to built. One would need a situation where huge or numerous instances' deallocation is postponed by the automatic garbage collector.
If I had this statement in my code, I'd rather investigate if I'm misunderstanding something.
Oct-15-2021, 10:57 PM
it is deletion by garbage collection that seems to be happening. i just wanted to handle exceptions in __del__(). i'm looking at the issues i run into many different ways, hence many questions to fully understand the details of what is happening.