wrote in news:mailman.216.1253565002.2807.python-l...@python.org in comp.lang.python:
>>Niether of the CPython versions (2.5 and 3.0 (with modified code)) >>exibited any memory increase between "allocated 1 meg + " and "end" > > You bumped into a special case that CPython optimizes. s[:] is s. If > you repeat your test with s[1:], you'll see memory climb as one might > normally expect. > Thanks for the correction (to Jack also) Rob. -- http://www.victim-prime.dsl.pipex.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
