Python garbage collection

Question

I have created some python code which creates an object in a loop, and in every iteration overwrites this object with a new one of the same type. This is done 10.000 times, and Python takes up 7mb of memory every second until my 3gb RAM is used. Does anyone know of a way to remove the objects from memory?

Answer 1

If you're creating circular references, your objects won't be deallocated immediately, but have to wait for a GC cycle to run.

You could use the weakref module to address this problem, or explicitly del your objects after use.