How can you copy (clone) a string?

[piet at cs.uu.nl]

>>>>> Greg Ewing <see at my.signature> (GE) writes:

GE> Peter.Rupp at ual.com wrote:
>> 
>> What I'm trying to do is determine how large a user process can be
>> before it runs out of memory.

>>>> a = 1000 * 'a' 
>>>> b = 1000 * 'a'
>>>> id(a)
GE> 1052344
>>>> id(b)
GE> 1091800
>>>> 

GE> Loop until done.

That will not help, as the strings will be garbage collected.

i = 0
s = 1000 * 'x'
mem = None
while 1:
    i = i+1
    mem = (mem, s+`i`)

might work (untested)
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