Klaas wrote: > placid wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Just wondering when i run the following code; > > > > for i in range(1000000): > > print i > > > > the memory usage of Python spikes and when the range(..) block finishes > > execution the memory usage does not drop down. Is there a way of > > freeing this memory that range(..) allocated? > > Python maintains a freelist for integers which is never freed (I don't > believe this has changed in 2.5). Normally this isn't an issue since > the number of distinct integers in simultaneous use is small (assuming > you aren't executing the above snippet).
Actually i am executing that code snippet and creating BeautifulSoup objects in the range() (now xrange() ) code block. Cheers -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
