Adam Atlas wrote: > I have a program that seemed to be leaking memory, but after > debugging, it seemed it just wasn't getting around to collecting the > objects in question often enough. The objects are very long-lived, so > they probably end up in generation 2, and don't get collected for a > long time. Is there any way I can force collection of these objects? I > know in Python 2.5 there's gc.collect(2), but I want to keep it > compatible with previous versions of Python.
Best way is to not create cycles. See if you can change some strong references to weakrefs. Tim Delaney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list