William Heymann wrote: > On Tuesday 07 November 2006 22:42, placid wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Just wondering when i run the following code; > > > > for i in range(1000000): > > print i > > > > 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 > > Change range to xrange. It will run faster and use up almost no memory by > comparison. I know the point you are getting at for releasing memory however > in this case there is no reason to allocate the memory to begin with.
Thanks for that it has fixed some of the memory problems. Just wondering if i continuously create different BeautifulSoup objects within a xrange() block when does the memory get released for this object, after the xrange() block, the next iteration of the xrange() block ? Cheers -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
