tuples allocated by formated print ?

[Alexander Hoffmann]

Hello,

Recently I was debugging a memory leak in my app and finally figured out that 
I had to manually implement destructors for some classes. 
While debugging I wrote a method that prints the number of instances per type 
for all objects returned by gc.get_objects. I was astonished by the fact that 
after perfroming a few tests with my app there were about 4000 instances of 
Tuple in memory. Looking at these instances I got the feeling that they 
contained the values I used in formated prints like: print ("my name is %s" % 
("alex", ))
Can anyone of you confirm that tuples constructed this way will be removed 
from memory by Python automatically ?
If so, can you imagine any reason for so many tuple instances to exist (given 
the fact that besides in print (...) I do not make use of tuples in my source 
code) ?


Thank you !
Alex