In article <[email protected]>, Steven D'Aprano <[email protected]> wrote: > >Actually, for many applications, the space "savings" may actually be >*costs*, since interning forces Python to hold onto strings even after >they would normally be garbage collected.
That's old news, fixed in 2.5 or 2.6 IIRC -- interned strings now get collected by refcounting like everything else. -- Aahz ([email protected]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "....Normal is what cuts off your sixth finger and your tail..." --Siobhan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
