High memory usage - program mistake or Python feature?

[Aahz]

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.
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