How to avoid freeing memory on exit?

[Skip Montanaro]

    Roy> Is there any way to get the interpreter to just exit without doing
    Roy> all that memory cleanup?

    Gerhard> os._exit

    Gumuz> so what does 'one' underscore prefixing a methodname mean?
 
    Simon> Proceed with caution.

In particular, in this case it means that Roy should make sure he *really*
doesn't care if __del__ methods associated with those 200,000 objects don't
get called.

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