The string "Hello there" is created and stored in memory as a Python object. The name x is created in the local namespace and pointed at that object, which increases its reference count by 1, to 1.

If you use Python objects, they’re memory-managed and garbage-collected the same as in regular Python. If you want to, you can also create and manage your own C-level structures, and use malloc ...

Python isn't exactly boxed into high-end hardware, but that's where it's gravitated to and it's been left out of mobile and the browser, even if it's popular on the backend of these services, he said.

Leading up to PyCon US 2022, the team published Memray as an open source tool so that Python developers worldwide can use it to track memory allocations in both Python code and native extensions ...

While Python leverages garbage management to free up memory that's not being used automatically, MicroPython requires manual management, meaning the user must allocate the memory manually.