memory leak problem with arrays

[Fredrik Lundh]

<sonja.coussell at gmail.com> wrote:
> After doing this I see that iterative counters used to collect occurrences
> and nested loop counters (ii & jj) as seen in the code example below
> are the culprits with the worst ones over 1M:
>
>                 for ii in xrange(0,40):
>                    for jj in xrange(0,20):
>                        try:
>                            nc = y[a+ii,b+jj]
>                        except IndexError: nc = 0
>
>                        if nc == "1" or nc == "5":
>                            news = news +1
>                            if news == 100:
>                                break
>                            else:
>                                pass
>                            y[a+ii,b+jj] = 4
>                        else:
>                            pass

what's "y" in this example ?

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