Thanks for all the responses. It looks like none of the BeautifulSoup objects have __del__ methods, so I don't think that can be the problem.
To answer your other question, guppy was the best match I came up with when looking for a memory profile for Python (or more specifically "Heapy"): http://guppy-pe.sourceforge.net/#Heapy On Thursday, May 31, 2012 2:51:52 AM UTC+1, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > The destructor doesn't get called into the last reference is gone. > That makes sense, so now I need to track down why there are references to the object when I don't think there should be. Are there any systematic methods for doing this? Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
