In article <509598270ドル29967ドル$c3e8da3$5496439d at news.astraweb.com>, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote: >>Actually, for many applications, the space "savings" may actually be >*costs*, since interning forces Python to hold onto strings even after >they would normally be garbage collected. That's old news, fixed in 2.5 or 2.6 IIRC -- interned strings now get collected by refcounting like everything else. -- Aahz (aahz at pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "....Normal is what cuts off your sixth finger and your tail..." --Siobhan