Garbage Collection Method

[JAVIER ALBERTO MONTOYA TORRES]

Someone else know whats the way Python collect Garbage, by
unreferenced locations in memory, usings flags, maybe hybrid of two or
more methods, ... Can help me?

Javier Montoya

 

[Terry Reedy]

Someone else know whats the way Python collect Garbage, by
unreferenced locations in memory, usings flags, maybe hybrid of two or
more methods, ... Can help me?

Python, the language, only specifies that the interpreter *may* collect
unneeded items. CPython uses reference counting backed by a
'generational'? gc for isolated cycles. Jython uses the Jave gc system,
whatever that is.

tjr

 

[Josiah Carlson]

Someone else know whats the way Python collect Garbage, by

unreferenced locations in memory, usings flags, maybe hybrid of two or
more methods, ... Can help me?

It uses a reference counting method, along with a cycle-detection
algorithm. More information about the cyclic garbage collector can be
found in the documentation for the gc module in the standard library.

- Josiah