Traversing the object space.

[Lothar Scholz]

Ruby has a nice function that can traverse the complete object space
of your program.

Is there anything like this in python ? It seems to be not in the
standart library but maybe i can find a short script somewhere else.

It is a nice way for to do some memory checks to find out if a part of
your app is generating too much objects.

[Jp Calderone]

Re: Traversing the object space.

On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 11:31:45AM -0700, Lothar Scholz wrote:[color=blue]
> Ruby has a nice function that can traverse the complete object space
> of your program.
>
> Is there anything like this in python ? It seems to be not in the
> standart library but maybe i can find a short script somewhere else.
>
> It is a nice way for to do some memory checks to find out if a part of
> your app is generating too much objects.[/color]


import gc
print gc.get_objects( )

Jp
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[Mark Hahn]

Re: Traversing the object space.

> > Ruby has a nice function that can traverse the complete object space[color=blue][color=green]
> > of your program.
> >
> > Is there anything like this in python ? It seems to be not in the
> > standart library but maybe i can find a short script somewhere else.
> >
> > It is a nice way for to do some memory checks to find out if a part of
> > your app is generating too much objects.[/color]
>
>
> import gc
> print gc.get_objects( )
>[/color]

Does this only report objects that support the garbage collector?

[Michael Hudson]

Re: Traversing the object space.

llothar@web.de (Lothar Scholz) writes:
[color=blue]
> Ruby has a nice function that can traverse the complete object space
> of your program.
>
> Is there anything like this in python ?[/color]

In a debug build, there's sys.getobjects( ). In recent release builds,
there's gc.get_objects( ) which I think only returns containers, but a
bit of creativity can find all objects from there (note that, unless
you try really hard instances of any classes you define will count as
containers).

Cheers,
mwh

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