possible string.strip memory leakage

[Bernard Yue]

Mike Brenner wrote:

> There might be a memory leak in string.strip.
>
> I wrote a python function to strip blanks off the left and right of a string. When I discovered string.strip, I replaced the call to my version with string.split, and I got a large memory leakage. When I put the call back to calling my python function, the memory leakage went away.

Did happen to me.  So we need your Python version and OS you are running.

Bernie

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