Richard Oudkerk added the comment: > You might want to open a prompt and look at gc.get_referrers() for > encodings.mbcs.__dict__ (or another of those modules).
>>> gc.get_referrers(sys.modules['encodings.mbcs'].__dict__) [<module 'encodings.mbcs' from 'C:\\Repos\\cpython-dirty\\lib\\encodings\\mbcs.py'>, <function decode at 0x01DEEF38>, <function getregentry at 0x01DFA038>, <function IncrementalEncoder.encode at 0x01DFA098>] >>> gc.get_referrers(sys.modules['encodings.cp1252'].__dict__) [<module 'encodings.cp1252' from 'C:\\Repos\\cpython-dirty\\lib\\encodings\\cp1252.py'>, <function getregentry at 0x02802578>, <function Codec.encode at 0x02802518>, <function Codec.decode at 0x028025D8>, <function IncrementalEncoder.encode at 0x02802638>, <function IncrementalDecoder.decode at 0x02802698>] >>> gc.get_referrers(sys.modules['__main__'].__dict__) [<function Blob.__init__ at 0x0057ABD8>, <function Blob.__del__ at 0x02AD36F8>, <frame object at 0x027DFA80>, <function <listcomp> at 0x02AD3DB8>, <frame object at 0x02A38038>, <module '__main__' (<_frozen_importlib.SourceFileLoader object at 0x0271EAB8>)>] ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue18214> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com