when does python free memory?

[dman]

On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 08:40:12AM -0800, Robert Eanes wrote:
| Hi-
| Reading the docs and searching the list archives, it seemed that
| python should release memory as soon as the last reference to an
| object is deleted.  However, I can't seem to prove this in practice. 

It frees the memory whenever it darn well feels like (which is only
sometime after all references are gone).  Certainly the timing
semantics are different in CPython vs. Jython.

-D

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