> Note that once it has made the .pyc file the subsequent runs take even > less memory than the cpickle import.
Could that be the compiler compiling? Without knowing to much details about that process, but from 2.4 to 2.5 the compiler was totally exchanged, <whatever> to AST. That would explain the drop from 8Meg -> 2.2 Meg. Harald -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list