Memory Leakage with Tuples and Lists

[June Kim]

Tested under Python 1.5 and 2.0 on Win32:

1.
Python 2.0 (#8, Oct 16 2000, 17:27:58) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)
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>>> for j in range(10):
...     temp=range(800000)
...     del temp

2.
Python 2.0 (#8, Oct 16 2000, 17:27:58) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)
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>>> for j in range(10):
...     temp='a'*8000000
...     del temp

In the case of #2, there is no memory leakage at all. All the memory is
returned 100%. However, in #1, there is a severe memory leakage, a few mega
bytes. Do you guys experience this on *nices as well?