High memory usage - program mistake or Python feature?

[Gerald Klix]

I fear you right and hope you err, becaus ethis scares me.

Aahz wrote:
> In article <3ED0C157.6060708 at klix.ch>,
> Gerald Klix  <Gerald.Klix at klix.ch> wrote:
> 
>>Obviously your program makes three in-memory copies of your log file.
>>Aahz explained why there must be at least two copies, I still
>>wonder how you managed to do the third one.
> 
> 
> Nope, two copies accounts for 100MB; 50MB is easily accounted for by
> various bits of overhead.