zero referenced object

[Skaperen]

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?

[Yoriz]

Eli Holderness - Pointers? In my Python? It's more likely than you think

[Skaperen]

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.

[Gribouillis]

You can manually run a garbage collection

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.

[Skaperen]

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.