Is this a bug? Python intermittently stops dead for seconds

[Fredrik Lundh]

Charlie Strauss wrote:

> Sorry to be slow but I don't know what "looking at the status
 > message" means.

did you add

import gc
gc.set_debug(gc.DEBUG_STATS)

to the top of the program?  (you need to run it to see the status 
messages, of course)

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