On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 12:55 PM, Steve D'Aprano <steve+pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > Reading his post, I get the impression he's the sort of programmer who > believes in never, ever, ever, ever re-using a variable, so he might do > something like: > > raw_data = collect_raw_data() # generates 10GB of data > data_after_step_one = massage(raw_data) > data_after_step_two = process(data_after_step_one) > ... > sorted_data = sorted(data_after_step_ten) > > and then wonders why he's running out of memory. "That's a memory leak!"
How is that any different in any other language? I don't understand how even this is a criticism of Python. If you were working in Java, say, you'd have basically the same result - keep all the stuff, keep all the memory usage. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
