Ben Finney wrote:
y, _, d, _, _, _, _, _, _ = time.localtime()
But you still have have a variable that's using memory for nothing.
No, you have one extra unused name binding. The values that you don't
want to use have *already* been allocated by the time the above
statement is executed. Name binding doesn't copy the values, it merely
binds a name to them. There's no "variable" in the above statement.
But if this happens in the main part of your script, it could take a long
time before this binding disapear, therefore, the gc won't be able to clean
that one up. In this particular case, it doesn't really matter (small size),
but imagine in a case where we are talking of a list of list, with
potentially large element in the list.
Yves.
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