How do I access Python's dictionary of all global variables?

[Michael Hudson]

Josiah Carlson <jcarlson at nospam.uci.edu> writes:

> > For reference, this can be done using a debug build of the interpreter.
> > I don't recall the name of the function or even which module it was
> > in (sys or gc, presumably) but it was there.  (I think. :-)

There's gc.get_objects(), present in all builds, which gives a list of
all objects tracked by the cycle collector (i.e. all containers).

In a debug build there's sys.getobjects(), which gives a list of
(potentially, depending on arguments passed) all objects known to the
interpreter.

> That scares me, it is very dangerous.

Why?  It can be useful for tracking refleak problems, if nothing else.

Cheers,
mwh

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