"Help needed - I don't understand how Python manages memory"

[Christian Heimes]

Gabriel Genellina schrieb:
> Apart from what everyone has already said, consider that FreqDist may import other modules, store global state, create other objects... whatever.
> Pure python code should not have any memory leaks (if there are, it's a bug in the Python interpreter). Not-carefully-written C extensions may introduce memory problems.

Pure Python code can cause memory leaks. No, that's not a bug in the
interpreter but the fault of the developer. For example code that messes
around with stack frames and exception object can cause nasty reference
leaks.

Christian