Fetchinson . wrote:
Hi folks,I have a rather simple program which cycles through a bunch of files, does some operation on them, and then quits. There are 500 files involved and each operation takes about 5-10 MB of memory. As you'll see I tried to make every attempt at removing everything at the end of each cycle so that memory consumption doesn't grow as the for loop progresses, but it still does. import os for f in os.listdir( '.' ): x = [ ] for ( i, line ) in enumerate( open( f ) ): import mystuff x.append( mystuff.expensive_stuff( line ) ) del mystuff import mystuff mystuff.some_more_expensive_stuff( x ) del mystuff del x What can be the reason? I understand that mystuff might be leaky, but if I delete it, doesn't that mean that whatever memory was allocated is freed? Similary x is deleted so that can't possibly make the memory consumption go up. Any hint would be much appreciated, Daniel
Try calling the garbage collector explicitly. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
