Issue #13389: Full garbage collection passes now clear the freelists for

list and dict objects.  They already cleared other freelists in the
interpreter.

2 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Doc/c-api/dict.rst b/Doc/c-api/dict.rst
index 6df84e0..ac714a6 100644
--- a/Doc/c-api/dict.rst
+++ b/Doc/c-api/dict.rst
@@ -209,3 +209,10 @@ Dictionary Objects
           for key, value in seq2:
               if override or key not in a:
                   a[key] = value
+
+
+.. c:function:: int PyDict_ClearFreeList()
+
+   Clear the free list. Return the total number of freed items.
+
+   .. versionadded:: 3.3
diff --git a/Doc/c-api/list.rst b/Doc/c-api/list.rst
index feb9015..5b263a7 100644
--- a/Doc/c-api/list.rst
+++ b/Doc/c-api/list.rst
@@ -142,3 +142,10 @@ List Objects
 
    Return a new tuple object containing the contents of *list*; equivalent to
    ``tuple(list)``.
+
+
+.. c:function:: int PyList_ClearFreeList()
+
+   Clear the free list. Return the total number of freed items.
+
+   .. versionadded:: 3.3