On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Rob Williscroft <r...@freenet.co.uk> wrote: > wrote in news:mailman.216.1253565002.2807.python-l...@python.org in > comp.lang.python: > >>>Niether of the CPython versions (2.5 and 3.0 (with modified code)) >>>exibited any memory increase between "allocated 1 meg + " and "end" >> >> You bumped into a special case that CPython optimizes. s[:] is s. If >> you repeat your test with s[1:], you'll see memory climb as one might >> normally expect. >> > > Thanks for the correction (to Jack also) > > Rob. > -- > http://www.victim-prime.dsl.pipex.com/ > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >
Thanks! The buffer object was exactly the 'slice view' that I was looking for to fix my version of the algorithm. -- Zachary Burns (407)590-4814 Aim - Zac256FL Production Engineer (Digital Overlord) Zindagi Games -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
