Stefan Krah added the comment: R. David Murray <rep...@bugs.python.org> wrote: > So the question is, if there is no longer a reference to the docstring, why > isn't it garbage collected? (I tested adding a gc.collect(), and it didn't > make any difference.)
I think it probably is garbage collected but the freed memory is not returned to the OS by the memory allocator. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue19533> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
