[Tim Peters]
> ...
> For example, after
>
>    def f():
>        dummy = xrange(10000000)
>
>    f()
>
> it's not just the `dummy` list object that's reclaimed when f exits,
> it's also about 10 million integer objects.

Sorry, that example should have used "range" instead of "xrange". 
Using xrange, no integer objects are created ;-)
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