In article <50959827$0$29967$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > >Actually, for many applications, the space "savings" may actually be >*costs*, since interning forces Python to hold onto strings even after >they would normally be garbage collected.
That's old news, fixed in 2.5 or 2.6 IIRC -- interned strings now get collected by refcounting like everything else. -- Aahz (a...@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "....Normal is what cuts off your sixth finger and your tail..." --Siobhan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
