Paul Pogonyshev added the comment: Looks like the memory _is_ freed. As Guido said, "It may be available for reallocation within Python, just not given back to the operating system". I suggest closing this as invalid.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ python Python 2.3.5 (#2, Oct 16 2006, 19:19:48) [GCC 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-13)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import gc >>> len ([object for object in gc.get_objects () if isinstance (object, list)]) 25 >>> aList = [] >>> for i in xrange(5E5): ... aList += [[]] ... for j in xrange(10): ... aList[-1].append([] ... ... KeyboardInterrupt >>> aList[-1].append([] KeyboardInterrupt >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/emacs$ python Python 2.3.5 (#2, Oct 16 2006, 19:19:48) [GCC 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-13)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import gc >>> len ([object for object in gc.get_objects () if isinstance (object, list)]) 25 >>> aList = [] >>> for i in xrange(5E5): ... aList += [[]] ... for j in xrange(10): ... aList[-1].append([]) ... __main__:1: DeprecationWarning: integer argument expected, got float >>> del aList >>> len ([object for object in gc.get_objects () if isinstance (object, list)]) 25 __________________________________ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1405> __________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
