gc.get_generation(num) added by this patch allows you
to get a
list of all objects in a given garbage collector
generation.

I wrote this while trying to debug a memory leak so
that I could peek at what types of objects were
remaining allocated but never freed.

Looking through the patches I see another similarish
patch that allow for searching the collection lists for
references to a particular thing or set of things. 
interesting.

Is it useful?  Yes and no.  I still haven't found the
memory leak.  But I know what objects are consuming it
so I can narrow my search through to code to find how
they are remaining referenced.

as a side note, there's not much point in the
generation number parameter to this method, 2 is the
only generation really worth examining.

This or something like it would be nice to see in a
future python gc module as a debugging aid.

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I still would like to see my gc.getreferents patch 
applied, which offers a similar debugging aid.

However, since this offers a somewhat orthogonal 
functionality, and is a quite short patch, I recommend to 
approve it.

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Accepted in modified form as gc.get_objects.  Thanks Greg.