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objgraph.by_type('file', untracked=True)

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start by locating the implementation of objgraph.by_type and its existing tests. Compare current behavior with the requested untracked option, using the issue's gc.get_referents example as the expected behavior. Done means the option returns matching objects that are not included by gc.get_objects(), while existing behavior remains unchanged.

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Description

enhancement

So, not all objects are tracked by the Python garbage collector, and therefore not all show up in gc.get_objects(). For example: file objecs don't, so objgraph.by_type('file') will always return an empty list.

Implement a workaround that does

    return [r for o in objects for r in gc.get_referents(o) if type(r).__name__ == typename]

if the user asks for it.

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