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Aug 2, 2023 · Fundamentals

Practical Python Garbage Collection and Memory Analysis: 10 Useful Code Examples

This article explains Python's automatic garbage collection mechanisms, including reference counting and cyclic garbage collection, and presents ten practical code snippets demonstrating how to inspect reference counts, list objects, trace memory usage, and employ profiling tools such as tracemalloc, memory_profiler, pympler, and objgraph to detect leaks and optimize memory usage.