Freeing memory from Python lists!

[Skip Montanaro]

    Mike> By using Windows Task Manager I was able to determine that 4332K
    Mike> of memory was used up until the end of the for loop, but only 960K
    Mike> of memory was returned to the system after the call to "del".  Is
    Mike> there any way to return the other 3372K of memory to the system
    Mike> without quitting the Python interpreter?

See my response to an earlier, similar question.  If this isn't in the FAQ
it should be.

    http://groups.google.com/groups?q=skip%40pobox.com+free&hl=en&safe=off&rnum=1&ic=1&selm=mailman.994087203.26386.python-list%40python.org

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