And what is being manipulated isn’t your common or garden variables. What you’ve got are objects. Every data item under Python is an object with a name, an identity, a type and a value.

Python grants its users many conveniences, and one of the largest is (nearly) hassle-free memory management. You don’t need to manually allocate, track, and dispose of memory for objects and ...

Information about actual Python program functions doesn’t show up. Python 3.12 enables an opt-in mode to allow perf to harvest details about Python programs, not just the runtime.