code sample for pandas-dev#47172

Author: simonjayhawkins

bisect/47172.py

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+# BUG: Memory leak when setting Series value via __setitem__ #47172
+
+import gc
+import os
+
+import psutil
+
+import pandas as pd
+
+print(pd.__version__)
+
+
+# create example data
+items = [f"item_{i}" for i in range(10_000)]
+
+data = {}
+for i, col in enumerate(items[:1000]):
+    data[col] = [1] * len(items)
+df = pd.DataFrame(index=items, data=data)
+
+gc.collect()
+process = psutil.Process(os.getpid())
+rss = process.memory_info().rss / 1024 / 1024
+
+for item in df.columns[:10]:
+    df[item][item] = -10
+    gc.collect()
+    new_rss = process.memory_info().rss / 1024 / 1024
+    result = "{:.2f} MiB".format(new_rss - rss)
+    print(result)
+
+assert result == "0.00 MiB", result