gc — Easy Examples

Garbage collector interface: enable/disable, find reference cycles

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Getting started with gc

Basic import and usage of the gc module.

python
import gc

print(f"GC enabled: {gc.isenabled()}")
print(f"Thresholds: {gc.get_threshold()}")
collected = gc.collect()
print(f"Collected: {collected} objects")

The gc module is part of Python's standard library. Garbage collector interface: enable/disable, find reference cycles.

Common gc operations

Frequently used functions from the gc module.

python
# More gc examples
import gc

print(f"gc module loaded successfully")
print(f"Location: {gc.__name__}")
print(f"Has {len(dir(gc))} attributes")

These are the most commonly used features of the gc module.

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