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- <section id="module-gc">
- <span id="gc-garbage-collector-interface"></span><h1><a class="reference internal" href="#module-gc" title="gc: Interface to the cycle-detecting garbage collector."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">gc</span></code></a> — Garbage Collector interface<a class="headerlink" href="#module-gc" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h1>
- <hr class="docutils" />
- <p>This module provides an interface to the optional garbage collector. It
- provides the ability to disable the collector, tune the collection frequency,
- and set debugging options. It also provides access to unreachable objects that
- the collector found but cannot free. Since the collector supplements the
- reference counting already used in Python, you can disable the collector if you
- are sure your program does not create reference cycles. Automatic collection
- can be disabled by calling <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">gc.disable()</span></code>. To debug a leaking program call
- <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">gc.set_debug(gc.DEBUG_LEAK)</span></code>. Notice that this includes
- <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">gc.DEBUG_SAVEALL</span></code>, causing garbage-collected objects to be saved in
- gc.garbage for inspection.</p>
- <p>The <a class="reference internal" href="#module-gc" title="gc: Interface to the cycle-detecting garbage collector."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">gc</span></code></a> module provides the following functions:</p>
- <dl class="py function">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="gc.enable">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">gc.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">enable</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#gc.enable" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Enable automatic garbage collection.</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py function">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="gc.disable">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">gc.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">disable</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#gc.disable" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Disable automatic garbage collection.</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py function">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="gc.isenabled">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">gc.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">isenabled</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#gc.isenabled" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Return <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">True</span></code> if automatic collection is enabled.</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py function">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="gc.collect">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">gc.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">collect</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">generation</span></span><span class="o"><span class="pre">=</span></span><span class="default_value"><span class="pre">2</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#gc.collect" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>With no arguments, run a full collection. The optional argument <em>generation</em>
- may be an integer specifying which generation to collect (from 0 to 2). A
- <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#ValueError" title="ValueError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ValueError</span></code></a> is raised if the generation number is invalid. The number of
- unreachable objects found is returned.</p>
- <p>The free lists maintained for a number of built-in types are cleared
- whenever a full collection or collection of the highest generation (2)
- is run. Not all items in some free lists may be freed due to the
- particular implementation, in particular <a class="reference internal" href="functions.html#float" title="float"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">float</span></code></a>.</p>
- <p>The effect of calling <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">gc.collect()</span></code> while the interpreter is already
- performing a collection is undefined.</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py function">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="gc.set_debug">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">gc.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">set_debug</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">flags</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#gc.set_debug" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Set the garbage collection debugging flags. Debugging information will be
- written to <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">sys.stderr</span></code>. See below for a list of debugging flags which can be
- combined using bit operations to control debugging.</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py function">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="gc.get_debug">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">gc.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">get_debug</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#gc.get_debug" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Return the debugging flags currently set.</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py function">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="gc.get_objects">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">gc.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">get_objects</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">generation</span></span><span class="o"><span class="pre">=</span></span><span class="default_value"><span class="pre">None</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#gc.get_objects" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Returns a list of all objects tracked by the collector, excluding the list
- returned. If <em>generation</em> is not None, return only the objects tracked by
- the collector that are in that generation.</p>
- <div class="versionchanged">
- <p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.8: </span>New <em>generation</em> parameter.</p>
- </div>
- <p class="audit-hook">Raises an <a class="reference internal" href="sys.html#auditing"><span class="std std-ref">auditing event</span></a> <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">gc.get_objects</span></code> with argument <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">generation</span></code>.</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py function">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="gc.get_stats">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">gc.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">get_stats</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#gc.get_stats" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Return a list of three per-generation dictionaries containing collection
- statistics since interpreter start. The number of keys may change
- in the future, but currently each dictionary will contain the following
- items:</p>
- <ul class="simple">
- <li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">collections</span></code> is the number of times this generation was collected;</p></li>
- <li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">collected</span></code> is the total number of objects collected inside this
- generation;</p></li>
- <li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">uncollectable</span></code> is the total number of objects which were found
- to be uncollectable (and were therefore moved to the <a class="reference internal" href="#gc.garbage" title="gc.garbage"><code class="xref py py-data docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">garbage</span></code></a>
- list) inside this generation.</p></li>
- </ul>
- <div class="versionadded">
- <p><span class="versionmodified added">New in version 3.4.</span></p>
- </div>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py function">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="gc.set_threshold">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">gc.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">set_threshold</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">threshold0</span></span></em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">threshold1</span></span></em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">threshold2</span></span></em><span class="optional">]</span><span class="optional">]</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#gc.set_threshold" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Set the garbage collection thresholds (the collection frequency). Setting
- <em>threshold0</em> to zero disables collection.</p>
- <p>The GC classifies objects into three generations depending on how many
- collection sweeps they have survived. New objects are placed in the youngest
- generation (generation <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">0</span></code>). If an object survives a collection it is moved
- into the next older generation. Since generation <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">2</span></code> is the oldest
- generation, objects in that generation remain there after a collection. In
- order to decide when to run, the collector keeps track of the number object
- allocations and deallocations since the last collection. When the number of
- allocations minus the number of deallocations exceeds <em>threshold0</em>, collection
- starts. Initially only generation <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">0</span></code> is examined. If generation <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">0</span></code> has
- been examined more than <em>threshold1</em> times since generation <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">1</span></code> has been
- examined, then generation <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">1</span></code> is examined as well.
- With the third generation, things are a bit more complicated,
- see <a class="reference external" href="https://devguide.python.org/garbage_collector/#collecting-the-oldest-generation">Collecting the oldest generation</a> for more information.</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py function">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="gc.get_count">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">gc.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">get_count</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#gc.get_count" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Return the current collection counts as a tuple of <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">(count0,</span> <span class="pre">count1,</span>
- <span class="pre">count2)</span></code>.</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py function">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="gc.get_threshold">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">gc.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">get_threshold</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#gc.get_threshold" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Return the current collection thresholds as a tuple of <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">(threshold0,</span>
- <span class="pre">threshold1,</span> <span class="pre">threshold2)</span></code>.</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py function">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="gc.get_referrers">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">gc.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">get_referrers</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="o"><span class="pre">*</span></span><span class="n"><span class="pre">objs</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#gc.get_referrers" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Return the list of objects that directly refer to any of objs. This function
- will only locate those containers which support garbage collection; extension
- types which do refer to other objects but do not support garbage collection will
- not be found.</p>
- <p>Note that objects which have already been dereferenced, but which live in cycles
- and have not yet been collected by the garbage collector can be listed among the
- resulting referrers. To get only currently live objects, call <a class="reference internal" href="#gc.collect" title="gc.collect"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">collect()</span></code></a>
- before calling <a class="reference internal" href="#gc.get_referrers" title="gc.get_referrers"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">get_referrers()</span></code></a>.</p>
- <div class="admonition warning">
- <p class="admonition-title">Warning</p>
- <p>Care must be taken when using objects returned by <a class="reference internal" href="#gc.get_referrers" title="gc.get_referrers"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">get_referrers()</span></code></a> because
- some of them could still be under construction and hence in a temporarily
- invalid state. Avoid using <a class="reference internal" href="#gc.get_referrers" title="gc.get_referrers"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">get_referrers()</span></code></a> for any purpose other than
- debugging.</p>
- </div>
- <p class="audit-hook">Raises an <a class="reference internal" href="sys.html#auditing"><span class="std std-ref">auditing event</span></a> <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">gc.get_referrers</span></code> with argument <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">objs</span></code>.</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py function">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="gc.get_referents">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">gc.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">get_referents</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="o"><span class="pre">*</span></span><span class="n"><span class="pre">objs</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#gc.get_referents" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Return a list of objects directly referred to by any of the arguments. The
- referents returned are those objects visited by the arguments’ C-level
- <a class="reference internal" href="../c-api/typeobj.html#c.PyTypeObject.tp_traverse" title="PyTypeObject.tp_traverse"><code class="xref c c-member docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tp_traverse</span></code></a> methods (if any), and may not be all objects actually
- directly reachable. <a class="reference internal" href="../c-api/typeobj.html#c.PyTypeObject.tp_traverse" title="PyTypeObject.tp_traverse"><code class="xref c c-member docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tp_traverse</span></code></a> methods are supported only by objects
- that support garbage collection, and are only required to visit objects that may
- be involved in a cycle. So, for example, if an integer is directly reachable
- from an argument, that integer object may or may not appear in the result list.</p>
- <p class="audit-hook">Raises an <a class="reference internal" href="sys.html#auditing"><span class="std std-ref">auditing event</span></a> <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">gc.get_referents</span></code> with argument <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">objs</span></code>.</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py function">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="gc.is_tracked">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">gc.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">is_tracked</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">obj</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#gc.is_tracked" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Returns <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">True</span></code> if the object is currently tracked by the garbage collector,
- <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">False</span></code> otherwise. As a general rule, instances of atomic types aren’t
- tracked and instances of non-atomic types (containers, user-defined
- objects…) are. However, some type-specific optimizations can be present
- in order to suppress the garbage collector footprint of simple instances
- (e.g. dicts containing only atomic keys and values):</p>
- <div class="highlight-python3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">gc</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">is_tracked</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">)</span>
- <span class="go">False</span>
- <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">gc</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">is_tracked</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">"a"</span><span class="p">)</span>
- <span class="go">False</span>
- <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">gc</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">is_tracked</span><span class="p">([])</span>
- <span class="go">True</span>
- <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">gc</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">is_tracked</span><span class="p">({})</span>
- <span class="go">False</span>
- <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">gc</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">is_tracked</span><span class="p">({</span><span class="s2">"a"</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">})</span>
- <span class="go">False</span>
- <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">gc</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">is_tracked</span><span class="p">({</span><span class="s2">"a"</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="p">[]})</span>
- <span class="go">True</span>
- </pre></div>
- </div>
- <div class="versionadded">
- <p><span class="versionmodified added">New in version 3.1.</span></p>
- </div>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py function">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="gc.is_finalized">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">gc.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">is_finalized</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">obj</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#gc.is_finalized" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Returns <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">True</span></code> if the given object has been finalized by the
- garbage collector, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">False</span></code> otherwise.</p>
- <div class="highlight-python3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">x</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="kc">None</span>
- <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="k">class</span> <span class="nc">Lazarus</span><span class="p">:</span>
- <span class="gp">... </span> <span class="k">def</span> <span class="fm">__del__</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="p">):</span>
- <span class="gp">... </span> <span class="k">global</span> <span class="n">x</span>
- <span class="gp">... </span> <span class="n">x</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="bp">self</span>
- <span class="gp">...</span>
- <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">lazarus</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">Lazarus</span><span class="p">()</span>
- <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">gc</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">is_finalized</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">lazarus</span><span class="p">)</span>
- <span class="go">False</span>
- <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="k">del</span> <span class="n">lazarus</span>
- <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">gc</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">is_finalized</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="p">)</span>
- <span class="go">True</span>
- </pre></div>
- </div>
- <div class="versionadded">
- <p><span class="versionmodified added">New in version 3.9.</span></p>
- </div>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py function">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="gc.freeze">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">gc.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">freeze</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#gc.freeze" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Freeze all the objects tracked by the garbage collector; move them to a
- permanent generation and ignore them in all the future collections.</p>
- <p>If a process will <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">fork()</span></code> without <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">exec()</span></code>, avoiding unnecessary
- copy-on-write in child processes will maximize memory sharing and reduce
- overall memory usage. This requires both avoiding creation of freed “holes”
- in memory pages in the parent process and ensuring that GC collections in
- child processes won’t touch the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">gc_refs</span></code> counter of long-lived objects
- originating in the parent process. To accomplish both, call <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">gc.disable()</span></code>
- early in the parent process, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">gc.freeze()</span></code> right before <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">fork()</span></code>, and
- <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">gc.enable()</span></code> early in child processes.</p>
- <div class="versionadded">
- <p><span class="versionmodified added">New in version 3.7.</span></p>
- </div>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py function">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="gc.unfreeze">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">gc.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">unfreeze</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#gc.unfreeze" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Unfreeze the objects in the permanent generation, put them back into the
- oldest generation.</p>
- <div class="versionadded">
- <p><span class="versionmodified added">New in version 3.7.</span></p>
- </div>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py function">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="gc.get_freeze_count">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">gc.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">get_freeze_count</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#gc.get_freeze_count" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Return the number of objects in the permanent generation.</p>
- <div class="versionadded">
- <p><span class="versionmodified added">New in version 3.7.</span></p>
- </div>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <p>The following variables are provided for read-only access (you can mutate the
- values but should not rebind them):</p>
- <dl class="py data">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="gc.garbage">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">gc.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">garbage</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#gc.garbage" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>A list of objects which the collector found to be unreachable but could
- not be freed (uncollectable objects). Starting with Python 3.4, this
- list should be empty most of the time, except when using instances of
- C extension types with a non-<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">NULL</span></code> <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tp_del</span></code> slot.</p>
- <p>If <a class="reference internal" href="#gc.DEBUG_SAVEALL" title="gc.DEBUG_SAVEALL"><code class="xref py py-const docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">DEBUG_SAVEALL</span></code></a> is set, then all unreachable objects will be
- added to this list rather than freed.</p>
- <div class="versionchanged">
- <p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.2: </span>If this list is non-empty at <a class="reference internal" href="../glossary.html#term-interpreter-shutdown"><span class="xref std std-term">interpreter shutdown</span></a>, a
- <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#ResourceWarning" title="ResourceWarning"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ResourceWarning</span></code></a> is emitted, which is silent by default. If
- <a class="reference internal" href="#gc.DEBUG_UNCOLLECTABLE" title="gc.DEBUG_UNCOLLECTABLE"><code class="xref py py-const docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">DEBUG_UNCOLLECTABLE</span></code></a> is set, in addition all uncollectable objects
- are printed.</p>
- </div>
- <div class="versionchanged">
- <p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.4: </span>Following <span class="target" id="index-0"></span><a class="pep reference external" href="https://peps.python.org/pep-0442/"><strong>PEP 442</strong></a>, objects with a <a class="reference internal" href="../reference/datamodel.html#object.__del__" title="object.__del__"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">__del__()</span></code></a> method don’t end
- up in <a class="reference internal" href="#gc.garbage" title="gc.garbage"><code class="xref py py-data docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">gc.garbage</span></code></a> anymore.</p>
- </div>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py data">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="gc.callbacks">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">gc.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">callbacks</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#gc.callbacks" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>A list of callbacks that will be invoked by the garbage collector before and
- after collection. The callbacks will be called with two arguments,
- <em>phase</em> and <em>info</em>.</p>
- <p><em>phase</em> can be one of two values:</p>
- <blockquote>
- <div><p>“start”: The garbage collection is about to start.</p>
- <p>“stop”: The garbage collection has finished.</p>
- </div></blockquote>
- <p><em>info</em> is a dict providing more information for the callback. The following
- keys are currently defined:</p>
- <blockquote>
- <div><p>“generation”: The oldest generation being collected.</p>
- <p>“collected”: When <em>phase</em> is “stop”, the number of objects
- successfully collected.</p>
- <p>“uncollectable”: When <em>phase</em> is “stop”, the number of objects
- that could not be collected and were put in <a class="reference internal" href="#gc.garbage" title="gc.garbage"><code class="xref py py-data docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">garbage</span></code></a>.</p>
- </div></blockquote>
- <p>Applications can add their own callbacks to this list. The primary
- use cases are:</p>
- <blockquote>
- <div><p>Gathering statistics about garbage collection, such as how often
- various generations are collected, and how long the collection
- takes.</p>
- <p>Allowing applications to identify and clear their own uncollectable
- types when they appear in <a class="reference internal" href="#gc.garbage" title="gc.garbage"><code class="xref py py-data docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">garbage</span></code></a>.</p>
- </div></blockquote>
- <div class="versionadded">
- <p><span class="versionmodified added">New in version 3.3.</span></p>
- </div>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <p>The following constants are provided for use with <a class="reference internal" href="#gc.set_debug" title="gc.set_debug"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">set_debug()</span></code></a>:</p>
- <dl class="py data">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="gc.DEBUG_STATS">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">gc.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">DEBUG_STATS</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#gc.DEBUG_STATS" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Print statistics during collection. This information can be useful when tuning
- the collection frequency.</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py data">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="gc.DEBUG_COLLECTABLE">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">gc.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">DEBUG_COLLECTABLE</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#gc.DEBUG_COLLECTABLE" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Print information on collectable objects found.</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py data">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="gc.DEBUG_UNCOLLECTABLE">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">gc.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">DEBUG_UNCOLLECTABLE</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#gc.DEBUG_UNCOLLECTABLE" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Print information of uncollectable objects found (objects which are not
- reachable but cannot be freed by the collector). These objects will be added
- to the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">garbage</span></code> list.</p>
- <div class="versionchanged">
- <p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.2: </span>Also print the contents of the <a class="reference internal" href="#gc.garbage" title="gc.garbage"><code class="xref py py-data docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">garbage</span></code></a> list at
- <a class="reference internal" href="../glossary.html#term-interpreter-shutdown"><span class="xref std std-term">interpreter shutdown</span></a>, if it isn’t empty.</p>
- </div>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py data">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="gc.DEBUG_SAVEALL">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">gc.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">DEBUG_SAVEALL</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#gc.DEBUG_SAVEALL" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>When set, all unreachable objects found will be appended to <em>garbage</em> rather
- than being freed. This can be useful for debugging a leaking program.</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py data">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="gc.DEBUG_LEAK">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">gc.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">DEBUG_LEAK</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#gc.DEBUG_LEAK" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>The debugging flags necessary for the collector to print information about a
- leaking program (equal to <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">DEBUG_COLLECTABLE</span> <span class="pre">|</span> <span class="pre">DEBUG_UNCOLLECTABLE</span> <span class="pre">|</span>
- <span class="pre">DEBUG_SAVEALL</span></code>).</p>
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