Is there any way to get Python to release memory back to the C allocator? I'm currently running a script that goes through the following steps:
1) Creates a very large number of Python objects to produce a relatively small data structure that sits in a C extension. The Python objects consume quite a bit of memory. 2) Releases all the Python objects. 3) Invokes a function of said C extension for further processing. This step needs as much memory as possible. I'd like step 2 to return memory to the C allocator so that it is available to the extension in step 3 (which uses malloc). Regards, Iker Arizmendi -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
