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Whenever Python exits, why isn’t all the memory de-allocated?


srikarkandukuri467 24th Oct, 2021
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Nitin Mereddy 24th Oct, 2021

Whenever Python exits, especially those Python modules which are having circular references to other objects or the objects that are referenced from the global namespaces are not always de-allocated or freed.

It is not possible to de-allocate those portions of memory that are reserved by the C library.

On exit, because of having its own efficient clean up mechanism, Python would try to de-allocate every object.

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