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Re: Set x to to None and del x doesn't release memory in python 2.7.1 (HPUX 11.23, ia64)

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Date 2013-03-07 18:19 +1100
Subject Re: Set x to to None and del x doesn't release memory in python 2.7.1 (HPUX 11.23, ia64)
From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.2983.1362640787.2939.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 5:33 PM, Wong Wah Meng-R32813
<r32813@freescale.com> wrote:
> [] The example is written for illustration purpose. Thanks for pointing out a better way of achieving the same result. Yes it seems so that the OS thinks the piece allocated to Python should not be taken back unless the process dies. :(

Don't be too bothered by that. That memory will be reused by Python
for subsequent allocations.

ChrisA

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