Robert Collins wrote: > On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 11:17 +1000, Andrew Bennetts wrote: > > > > I think we probably also want to merge my string interning > > one-liner :) > > When are interned strings released? When there are no references left. (Before Python 2.3 they used to be immortal. Now they have the same lifetime as any other string.) -Andrew.