How Python Takes Out Its Own Garbage
Python manages memory automatically, freeing developers from manual allocation and deallocation. It does this through two complementary mechanisms: reference counting and a generational garbage collector for cyclic references. This article covers how garbage collection works in CPython. In other implementations such as PyPy, it works under a different mechanism Reference Counting: The Primary…
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