[Tutor] memory management

[David Ascher]

On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, Christian Tismer wrote:
> 
> No, AFAIK Python does never free memory which it had
> acquired before, but it will reuse it.

Uh?  Sorry, Christian, that's false.  Python frees the memory just fine
when no references are held (for those who care, The *operating system*
may not show it as freed -- that's what Linux does, for example.  Windows
NT, on the other hand, shows the memory as freed.

I have a specific answer to the original post coming up.

--david