Tracking down memory leaks?

[John J. Lee]

Steven D'Aprano <steve at REMOVETHIScyber.com.au> writes:
> On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 05:11:02 -0800, MKoool wrote:
[...]
> I may be mistaken, and if so I will welcome the correction, but Python
> does not return memory to the operating system until it terminates.
> 
> Objects return memory to Python when they are garbage collected, but not
> the OS.
[...]

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/ce5c44915f43d6d/2bea1c569a65e13e


John