memory management

[Terry Reedy]

On 11/7/2011 3:47 PM, Stefan Krah wrote:
> Juan Declet-Barreto<Juan.Declet-Barreto at MesaAZ.gov>  wrote:
>> Well, I am using Python 2.5 (and the IDLE shell) in Windows XP, which
>> ships with ESRI's ArcGIS. In addition, I am using some functions in the
>> arcgisscripting Python geoprocessing module for geographic information
>> systems (GIS) applications, which can complicate things. I am currently
>> isolating standard library Python code (e.g., os.walk()) from the
>> arcgisscripting module to evaluate in which module the environment
>> crash is occurring.

What *exactly* do you mean by "crash"?

> It might be a good idea to check if the problem also occurs with Python 2.7
> since Python 2.5 is no longer maintained.

And 2.7 has hundreds of more recent bug fixes. Just one could make a 
difference.

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Terry Jan Reedy