[Python-Dev] d.get_key(key) -> key?

[Guido van Rossum]

> It is my understanding that calling intern creates a string that is
> forever immortal? [Perhaps this is a question for python-list
> though?]

Yes.

> For our application, we can not afford to "leak" the memory we would
> lose to the immortal strings.

Thanks for explaining that.  The use case still seems to esoteric to
me to warrant adding a feature to Python.  You could always write an
extension that does it though. :-)

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)