[Pythonmac-SIG] Memory Leak in Python 2.2 IDE on Mac?

[Just van Rossum]

Louis M. Pecora wrote:

> Looks like a memory leak to me, but maybe the IDE is set up to keep
> variables around, hence tab1, tab2, etc. are never garbage collected
> after the module is run with a new varible name, e.g. tab2 in place
> of tab1.

Variables are retained until overwritten, or until the script window is closed.
I think this is handy, but I agree it's not a completely obvious why...

Just