Suitability for long-running text processing?

[tsuraan]

> I remember something about it coming up in some of the discussions of
> free lists and better behavior in this regard in 2.5, but I don't
> remember the details.


Under Python 2.5, my original code posting no longer exhibits the bug - upon
calling del(a), python's size shrinks back to ~4 MB, which is its starting
size.  I guess I'll see how painful it is to migrate a gentoo system to
2.5... Thanks for the hint :)
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