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| author | Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> | 2012-12-09 13:28:26 (GMT) |
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| committer | Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> | 2012-12-09 13:28:26 (GMT) |
| commit | f9d0b1256fd5a9ae90fa8e8418bd450ec6b7f5f2 (patch) | |
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Issue #13390: New function :func:`sys.getallocatedblocks()` returns the number of memory blocks currently allocated.
Also, the ``-R`` option to regrtest uses this function to guard against memory allocation leaks.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/sys.rst b/Doc/library/sys.rst index c327f21..ee1f2b2 100644 --- a/Doc/library/sys.rst +++ b/Doc/library/sys.rst @@ -393,6 +393,20 @@ always available. .. versionadded:: 3.1 +.. function:: getallocatedblocks() + + Return the number of memory blocks currently allocated by the interpreter, + regardless of their size. This function is mainly useful for debugging + small memory leaks. Because of the interpreter's internal caches, the + result can vary from call to call; you may have to call + :func:`_clear_type_cache()` to get more predictable results. + + .. versionadded:: 3.4 + + .. impl-detail:: + Not all Python implementations may be able to return this information. + + .. function:: getcheckinterval() Return the interpreter's "check interval"; see :func:`setcheckinterval`. |