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 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list