getting memory usage of varaibles

[Larry Martell]

On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 8:29 AM, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 10:12 PM, Larry Martell <larry.martell at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 12:57 AM, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 5:53 AM, Larry Martell <larry.martell at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> And I can see it getting larger and larger. But I want to see what it
>>>> is that is causing this. My thought was to put all the objects in a
>>>> dict with their sizes and compare them as the program runs and report
>>>> on the one that are growing. But I can't get the name of the object
>>>> from gc.get_objects only the id.
>>>
>>> Coming right back to the beginning here: What do you expect the name
>>> of an object to be?
>>
>> The name of the variable in the program, e.g. sql, db_conn, rows, etc.
>
> Name bindings are one-way. You can't go from the object to its name.
> An object may have zero, one, or multiple names; and function-local
> names could be used more than once.

Yeah, that makes sense.

> If you want an object to have a name for tracing purposes, you'll have
> to give it one as some sort of attribute.

A good trick to know. Thanks.