How to free memory ( ie garbage collect) at run time with Python 2.5.1(windows)

[Francesco Guerrieri]

On 8/27/07, Peter Otten <__peter__ at web.de> wrote:
> Peter Otten wrote:
>
> > Alex Martelli wrote:
> >
> >> Integer objects that are once generated are kept around in a "free list"
> >> against the probability that they might be needed again in the future (a
> >
> > Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, May  2 2007, 16:56:35)
> > [GCC 4.1.2 (Ubuntu 4.1.2-0ubuntu4)] on linux2
> > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>>> x = 1000
> >>>> y = 1000
> >>>> x is y
> > False
> > Why don't x and y point to the same object then?
> > Peter
> Oops, I think I got it now. The actual objects are freed, only the memory is
> kept around for reuse with other ints...

On my (windows) machine, only integer up to 256 are cached...
I made two dictionaries with mapping from i to id(i) and then
compared. They were equal up to 256.
In short, try your example with 256 and 257 and see what happens :-)

francesco