[issue1565525] tracebacks eat up memory by holding references to locals and globals when they are not wanted

[Greg Hazel]

Greg Hazel <ghazel at users.sourceforge.net> added the comment:

It seems this is partially addressed in a big red "Warning" section of the docs on sys.exc_info: http://docs.python.org/release/3.1/library/sys.html#sys.exc_info
and is captured in the "Open Issue: Garbage Collection" section for PEP-3134: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3134/

Bug or feature request, this a well understood and real issue.

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