[issue3104] overzealous garbage collector (dict)

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

> The original text file was an IRC log. Shoving Charles Dickens' "Great
> Expectations" 17 times in a text file and then parsing it doesn't show
> this problem for some weird reason.

I'd say the "weird reason" is probably a bug in your script. For example
the following appears very dubious:

		for o in self.wlist:
			if len(o) > 0xFF:
				o = o[:0xFF]
			fp.write(chr(len(o)))
			fp.write(o)
			for s in self.wlist[o]:

In any case, the idea that one of Python's built-in containers would
silently *drop* values (rather than segfault or produce a MemoryError)
is in itself quite unbelievable, due to the way those containers funciton.

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