Python Memory Management 101.Deeping in Garbage collector

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José Manuel Ortega @jmortegac Python Memory Management 101 Deeping in Garbage collector

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About me ● @jmortegac ● http://jmortega.github.io ● https://www.linkedin.com/in/jmortega1/

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Agenda ● Introduction to memory management ● Garbage collector and reference counting with python ● Review the gc module for configuring the python garbage collector ● Best practices for memory managment

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Introduction to memory management ● Memory management is the process of efficiently allocating, de-allocating, and coordinating memory so that all the different processes run smoothly and can optimally access different system resources.

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Python Objects in Memory

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Python Memory Manager

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Heap allocation

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def main(): x=300 print(id(x)) w=fun(x) print(id(w)) def sqr(x): print (id(x)) z=x*x print(id(z)) return z if __name__ == "__main__": main() Heap allocation

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Python Objects in Memory ● Each variable in Python acts as an object ● Python is a dynamically typed language which means that we do not need to declare types for variables.

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Python Objects in Memory

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Python Objects in Memory

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Python Objects in Memory

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Python Objects in Memory

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id() method

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id() method

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id() method

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is Operator

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Reference counting ● Python manages objects by using reference counting ● Reference counting works by counting the number of times an object is referenced by other objects in the application. ● When references to an object are removed, the reference count for an object is decremented.

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● A reference is a container object pointing at another object. ● Reference counting is a simple technique in which objects are allocated when there is reference to them in a program Reference counting

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● when reference count increases? ○ x=1 ○ def(x): ○ list.append(x) Reference counting

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Reference counting

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Reference counting

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Reference counting

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● Easy to implement ● Objects are immediately deleted when reference counter is 0 ✗ Not thread-safe ✗ Doesn’t detect cyclic references ✗ space overhead - reference count is stored for every object Reference counting

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Garbage collector(GC) module

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● Reference Counting + Generational GC ● RefCount reaches zero, immediate deletion ● Deleted objects with cyclic references are deleted with Tracing GC Python Garbage collector

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Garbage collector(GC) reference cycle

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>>> def ref_cycle(): ... list = [1, 2, 3, 4] ... list.append(list) ... return list Garbage collector(GC) reference cycle

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Garbage collector(GC) reference cycle import gc for i in range(8): ref_cycle() n = gc.collect() print("Number of unreachable objects collected by GC:", n) print("Uncollectable garbage:", gc.garbage) print("Number of unreachable objects collected by GC:", gc.collect())

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Garbage collector(GC) reference cycle

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Python Object Graphs https://mg.pov.lt/objgraph/ import objgraph x = "hello" y = [x, [x], list(x), dict(x=x)] objgraph.show_refs([y], filename='sample-graph.png')

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Best practices for memory management ● Using gc.collect() carefully print("Collecting...") n = gc.collect() print("Number of unreachable objects collected:", n) print("Uncollectable garbage:", gc.garbage)

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Garbage collector(GC) methods

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● Using with context manager for working with files with open('data.txt', 'r') as file: data = ','.join(line.strip() for line in file) Best practices for memory management

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● Avoid List Slicing with [:] list= [1,2,3,4] list[1:3] list[slice(1,3)] Best practices for memory management

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Best practices for memory managment ● String Concatenation string= “hello” string+= “world” wordList = ("hello", "world") string = " ".join(wordList)

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● Use Iterators and Generators Best practices for memory management

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● https://stackabuse.com/basics-of-memory-management-in-p ython/ ● https://realpython.com/python-memory-management ● https://rushter.com/blog/python-garbage-collector ● https://pythonchb.github.io/PythonTopics/weak_references. html References

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