interned names: memory leak

[Thomas Thiele]

Normally, the names used in Python programs are
automatically interned, and the dictionaries used to hold
module, class or instance attributes have interned keys.
Interned strings are immortal (i.e. never get garbage
collected).

So far, so godawful. Really!

(I couldn't fix my memory leak yet, althought I wrote my own pickle.:-(
)

But how can I get the whole interned name?

And when a string becomes a name?