Sometimes, we want to explicitly free memory in Python.
In this article, we’ll look at how to explicitly free memory in Python.
How to explicitly free memory in Python?
To explicitly free memory in Python, we can use the gc.collect
method.
For instance, we write
import gc
del foo
del bar
gc.collect()
to use the del
operator to remove references of foo
and bar
from memory.
And then we call gc.collect
to free up the memory.
Conclusion
To explicitly free memory in Python, we can use the gc.collect
method.