python creates everything from heap?

Question

in c/c++, you have variables in stack when you create a local variable inside a function.

http://effbot.org/zone/call-by-object.htm

CLU objects ex

Answer 1

As a supplement to the other answers, here's one way to track when garbage-collection happens, using the special method __del__:

class Test(object):
    def __init__(self, name):
        self.name = name

    def __del__(self):
        print "deleting {0}".format(self.name)

print "discarded instance creation"
Test("hello")

print "saved instance creation"
myList = Test("bye")

print "program done"

Output:

discarded instance creation
deleting hello
saved instance creation
program done
deleting bye

For more in-depth data, see the gc module.