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Author skrah
Recipients Sworddragon, brett.cannon, r.david.murray, serhiy.storchaka, skrah
Date 2013-11-09.20:43:36
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R. David Murray <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:
> So the question is, if there is no longer a reference to the docstring, why isn't it garbage collected?  (I tested adding a gc.collect(), and it didn't make any difference.)

I think it probably is garbage collected but the freed memory is not returned to the OS
by the memory allocator.
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