thanks everyone for the replies! John Hunter, yep, this is Johnny Lin in geosci :).
re using return: the problem i have is somewhere in my code there's a memory leak. i realize return is supposed to unbind all the local variables, but since the memory leak is happening despite return, i thought it might help me track down the leak if i unbound everything explicitly that i had defined in local scope before i returned. or if anyone has recomm. on plugging leaks, would be thankful for any pointers there too. my understanding about locals() from the nutshell book was that i should treat that dictionary as read-only. is it safe to use it to delete entries? thanks again! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
