Huge dictionary, 1 min to create, 6 to delete

[Emile van Sebille]

I see longer cleanup times exiting from within windows,



import time

print "    ",time.ctime(time.time())
d = {}
for i in xrange(1000000):
  d[i] = i
print "    ",time.ctime(time.time())
del d
print "    ",time.ctime(time.time())

"""
Windows:
     Thu Aug 31 07:46:37 2000
     Thu Aug 31 07:47:18 2000
     Thu Aug 31 07:48:18 2000

[emile at lnxfc emile]$ date; python test.py; date
Thu Aug 31 07:49:56 PDT 2000
     Thu Aug 31 07:49:56 2000
     Thu Aug 31 07:50:03 2000
     Thu Aug 31 07:50:05 2000
Thu Aug 31 07:50:05 PDT 2000
"""

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Emile van Sebille
emile at fenx.com
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