It might not be a leak. *After* the loop the memory should be back to normal. The very same as with
sage: a = range(10**8) # takes a lot of memory sage: del a # free the memory Vincent PS: This would have been different with Python 3. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.