Carl Banks <pavlovevide...@gmail.com> writes: > On Apr 9, 11:23 pm, Hrvoje Niksic <hnik...@xemacs.org> wrote: >> a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes: >> > BTW, note that if you're using Python 2.x, range(1000000) will cause >> > a "leak" because ints are never freed. Instead, use xrange(). >> >> Note that using xrange() won't help with that particular problem. > > I think it will because with xrange the integers will not all have > to exist at one time, so Python doesn't have to increase the size of > the integer pool to a million.
Good catch! I stand corrected. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list