Bug report: memory leak in python 1.5.2

[Greg McFarlane]

Environment: Solaris 2.5.1, gcc

The following script chews up cycles (as expected) as well as memory
(megabytes every few seconds).

Does anyone know why?

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import os
while 1:
    os.environ['FOO'] = 'BAR'
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