how to "free" an object/var ?

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Tue Jan 30 19:19:30 EST 2007


In article <dfacb$45bfd788$d443bb3a$7010 at news.speedlinq.nl>,
Stef Mientki  <S.Mientki-nospam at mailbox.kun.nl> wrote:
>
>If I create a large array of data or class, how do I destroy it (when
>not needed anymore) ?

You should be aware that releasing memory may not cause the size of your
process to shrink -- many OSes keep memory assigned to an application for
its lifetime.
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