EW <ericwoodwo...@gmail.com> writes: > Well I cared because I thought garbage collection would only happen > when the script ended - the entire script. Since I plan on running > this as a service it'll run for months at a time without ending. So I > thought I was going to have heaps of Queues hanging out in memory, > unreferenced and unloved. It seemed like bad practice so I wanted to > get out ahead of it.
Even if GC worked that way it wouldn't matter, if you use just one queue per type of task. That number should be a small constant so the memory consumption is small. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
