> I am trying to understand Python's garbage collection mechanism. I
> have a long running program (actually a shell
> extension) that needs to allocate large arrays occasionally, which I'd
> del after use, then call
> gc.collect() to collect them. But although gc.get_objects() reported
> the ar
I am trying to understand Python's garbage collection mechanism. I
have a long running program (actually a shell extension) that needs to
allocate large arrays occasionally, which I'd del after use, then call
gc.collect() to collect them. But although gc.get_objects() reported
the arrays have been
