how to "free" an object/var ?

[Aahz]

In article <AAXvh.1465$zH1.1114 at newssvr29.news.prodigy.net>,
John Nagle  <nagle at animats.com> wrote:
>Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:48:37 -0800, James Stroud wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>>Stef Mientki wrote:
>>>
>>>>If I create a large array of data or class,
>>>>how do I destroy it (when not needed anymore) ?
>
>    If your data structure has no backlinks, it will go away
>as soon as the last reference to it disappears.  If your
>data structure has backlinks, it will hang around until
>garbage collection runs.  If your backlinks are
>weak references (see "weakref"), the data structure will
>be released much sooner.

Note that exceptions create links.
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