> Seems to me that if the implementation of interning were > smart enough, it would be able to drop strings that were > not referenced from anywhere else. > > Maybe *that* would be a useful feature to add? An occasional run through the 'interned' dict (in stringobject.c) looking for strings with refcount 2 would do this. Maybe something for the gc module do handle as a service whenever it runs its last-generation collection? --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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