I m really sorry if no one of you liked/agreed with the fridge analogy but that's what my brain could come up with at the time, I have to say it's not a very scientific argument. but I only meant to say that if you are piping data into memory & this data is larger than that memory then there is no problem with the code but with the data, & I think this paragraph actually confirms some of it :
For anyone who cares about the real issue: it seems that tarfile.py caches > every member it processes in an internal list. The list isn't actually > used if accessing the file as an iterator, so by reinitializing it to [], > the memory consumption problem is avoided. This breaks other methods of > the module, which are used to extract particular desired members, but in > my case, that's okay. > but I have to admit I was completely wrong and a new patch to the tarfile module will soon see the light to fix this problem for the rest of ur lives painlessly.
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