On Aug 10, 1:49 pm, "Terry Reedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Campbell Barton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]| Michele Simionato wrote: > > | > Probably not, 'del x' just decrements the reference count, > > Or ashttp://docs.python.org/ref/del.html > puts it, " Deletion of a name removes the binding of that name from the > local or global namespace," > > | del x will remove x from memory if nothing else is refering to it, > > This is implementation dependent: true for CPython, not for Jython, ??? for > IronPython.
Wait a second; do you mean to say that in Jython, del x will never remove x from memory? How do you free up RAM? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list