Alright, it's pretty obvious that I have a lot to learn before I'll be able to intelligently address this problem, but if somebody could point me at something that would help me figure out the terminology at least I'd really appreciate it. From what you're saying, it sounds like a combination of the above approaches would do what I'm asking- ie, get all the containers, then get the contents of each container- but I don't see why that would work unless gc tracks some kind of global container for small values, which, as I (poorly) understand it, are tracked separately?
Thanks again, Geremy Condra -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
