Glossary

asizeof

Name of a formerly separate package. Now integrated into Pympler.

HeapMonitor

Name of a formerly separate package. Now integrated into Pympler.

muppy

Name of a formerly separate package. Now integrated into Pympler.

pymple, to

Obtain detailed insight in the size and the lifetime of Python objects.

pymple, a

Undesirable or unexpected runtime behavior like memory bloat.

summary

A summary contains information about objects in a summarized format. Instead of having data of every object, information are grouped by object type. Each object type is represented by a row, whereas the first column reflects the object type, the second column the number of objects of this type, and the third column the size of all of these objects. The output looks like the following:

types	# objects	total size
<type ‘dict’>	2	560
<type ‘str’>	3	126
<type ‘int’>	4	96
<type ‘long’>	2	66
<type ‘list’>	1	40