Dieter, Thanks for the response, and you're correct, debugging memory leaks is tough! So far I haven't had much luck other than determining I have a leak. I've used objgraph to see that objects are being created that don't seem to get cleaned up. What I can't figure out so far is why, they are local variable objects that "should" get cleaned up when they go out scope.
Ah well, I'll keep pushing! Thanks again, Doug -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list