getting memory usage of varaibles

[Larry Martell]

On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 6:15 PM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
> On 5/3/2017 8:40 AM, Larry Martell wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
>
> Python already uses this trick for functions, classes, and modules by giving
> them .__name__ attribute.  Code objects have a .co_name attribute.  These
> are used for tracing and tracebacks.

But not for a variable like a list or dict?