Memory Management in python 2.5

[Fredrik Lundh]

cesar.ortiz at gmail.com wrote:

>I just checked the comsuptiom with the 'top' unix util. I am procesing
> html docs and the amount of memory rises continiously.

what library are you using for this ?

> I am using a lot of lists and docs. Some of them with objects. Do i
> have to make any special thing in order to get them released back to
> the Memory Manager? For instantec.. is it enough to do a clear() in a
> dictionary?

the garbage collector should take care of that, unless you're doing something
fishy.  maybe you're keeping pointers to documents you've already processed
in some data structure somewhere?

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