gc.get_referrers trouble

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Hi,

I'm in the process of debugging a mem-leaking app. A recent thread here on
c.l.py mentioned the use of the gc module, so I gave it a try.

However, using get_referrers() yields in literally thousands of objects for
even the tiniest example like this:

import gc
a = [1]
print  gc.get_referrers(1)

Running that from bash gives me this:

# python /tmp/test.py | wc
     23    7196   67165

Now I'm confused - how do I interpret the results of get_referrers()
correctly?

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Regards,

Diez B. Roggisch