I just tried on my system
(Python is using 2.9 MiB)
>>> a = ['a' * (1 << 20) for i in xrange(300)]
(Python is using 304.1 MiB)
>>> del a
(Python is using 2.9 MiB -- as before)
And I didn't even need to tell the garbage collector to do its job. Some
info:
It looks like the big difference between our two programs is that you have
one huge string repeated 300 times, whereas I have thousands of
four-character strings. Are small strings ever collected by python?
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