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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/traceback.rst | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst | 8 |
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diff --git a/Doc/library/traceback.rst b/Doc/library/traceback.rst index 0533bea..b68a8f1 100644 --- a/Doc/library/traceback.rst +++ b/Doc/library/traceback.rst @@ -129,6 +129,13 @@ The module defines the following functions: A shorthand for ``format_list(extract_stack(f, limit))``. +.. function:: clear_frames(tb) + + Clears the local variables of all the stack frames in a traceback *tb* + by calling the :meth:`clear` method of each frame object. + + .. versionadded:: 3.4 + .. _traceback-example: diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst index e91ce2a..89912a9 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst @@ -377,6 +377,14 @@ plain tuple. (Contributed by Claudiu Popa in :issue:`18901`.) :meth:`sunau.open` now supports the context manager protocol (:issue:`18878`). +traceback +--------- + +A new :func:`traceback.clear_frames` function takes a traceback object +and clears the local variables in all of the frames it references, +reducing the amount of memory consumed (:issue:`1565525`). + + urllib ------ |