[issue32045] Does json.dumps have a memory leak?
Serhiy Storchaka
report at bugs.python.org
Thu Nov 16 04:01:32 EST 2017
Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka+cpython at gmail.com> added the comment:
indent=True just makes json to use Python implementation instead of C implementation. Python implementation uses closures which reference one other. Simple example not involving json is:
import gc
def f():
def g():
return h
def h():
return g
return
gc.set_debug(gc.DEBUG_LEAK)
while True:
f()
gc.collect()
print(f"garbage count: {len(gc.garbage)}")
The "leak" is caused by using gc.set_debug(gc.DEBUG_LEAK). gc.DEBUG_LEAK includes gc.DEBUG_COLLECTABLE, gc.DEBUG_UNCOLLECTABLE and gc.DEBUG_SAVEALL. gc.DEBUG_SAVEALL causes garbage-collected objects to be saved in gc.garbage for inspection. In normal circumstances they are collected.
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nosy: +pitrou, serhiy.storchaka
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