Python C API String Memory Consumption

[Aahz]

In article <41d95468-8f7a-4647-83e1-6df147744467 at u8g2000yqn.googlegroups.com>,
k3xji  <sumerc at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>When I run the following function, I seem to have a mem leak, a 20 mb
>of memory
>is allocated and is not freed. Here is the code I run:
>
>>>> import esauth
>>>> for i in range(1000000):
>
>...     ss = esauth.penc('sumer')
>...
>>>> for i in range(1000000):
>
>...     ss = esauth.penc('sumer')
>...

BTW, note that if you're using Python 2.x, range(1000000) will cause a
"leak" because ints are never freed.  Instead, use xrange().
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