memory leak with re.match

[Peter Otten]

Mayling ge wrote:

> Sorry. The code  here is just  to describe  the issue and  is just  pseudo
> code, 

That is the problem with your post. It's too vague for us to make sense of 
it.

Can you provide a minimal example that shows what you think is a "memory 
leak"? Then we can either help you avoid storing extra stuff or confirm an 
actual leak and help you prepare a bug report.