I'm observing a strange memory usage pattern with strings. Consider the following session. Idea is to create a list which holds some strings so that cumulative characters in the list is 100MB.
>>> l = [] >>> for i in xrange(100000): ... l.append(str(i) * (1000/len(str(i)))) This uses around 100MB of memory as expected and 'del l' will clear that. >>> for i in xrange(20000): ... l.append(str(i) * (5000/len(str(i)))) This is using 165MB of memory. I really don't understand where the additional memory usage is coming from. If I reduce the string size, it remains high till it reaches around 1000. In that case it is back to 100MB usage. Python 2.6.4 on FreeBSD. Regards, Amit -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
