Thanks for the feedback, everyone. I spent some time today playing
around with the gc module, and came to the same conclusion that many of
you have as well.
for o in gc.get_objects():
print(o)
was sufficient to convince me that I didn't want to go that route.
Writing a simple memory pool/heap that students will have to use to
allocate/deallocate objects of a particular type definitely seems the
way to go. It will get the ideas across, and allow them to contrast the
garbage collection and explicit memory management paradigms.
-Daniel
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