Can I get the total memory usage of Python?

[djw]

"Martin v. Löwis" wrote:

> Haigu wrote:
> 
>> I'm embedding python in my program, and now I want to fully test my
>> program to check for memory leaks. So is there any way to know how much
>> memory is used by python?
>> 
>> Also is there any way to know how many certain kind of objects are
>> allocated? say, how many intergers ?
> 
> In the release build, you can only find out how many container objects
> you have, with gc.getobjects(). In the debug build, you can get a list
> of all objects, which you can traverse to count them by type.
> 
> Regards,
> Martin

Isn't that gc.get_objects()?

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