<br><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">My first thought was that interned strings were causing the growth,<br>but that doesn't seem to be the case.
</blockquote><div><br>Interned strings, as of 2.3, are no longer immortal, right? The intern doc says you have to keep a reference around to the string now, anyhow. I really wish I could find that thing I read a year and a half ago about python never collecting small strings, but I just can't find it anymore. Maybe it's time for me to go source diving...
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