On 7 Nov 2006 21:42:31 -0800, placid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > Just wondering when i run the following code; > > for i in range(1000000): > print i > the problem of that is that all the memory is used by the list returned by range which wont be freed until the for loop exits
try this >>> import itertools >>> for i in itertools.count(1000000): ... print i that uses an iterator which I believe will bring down the memory usage but will kill your CPU :) > the memory usage of Python spikes and when the range(..) block finishes > execution the memory usage does not drop down. Is there a way of > freeing this memory that range(..) allocated? > > I found this document but the fix seems too complicated. > > http://www.python.org/pycon/2005/papers/79/python-memory.pdf > > Cheers > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
