[Numpy-discussion] freeing memory

[Travis Oliphant]

Daniel Sheltraw wrote:

> Hello All
>
> Is their a reliable way to free memory allocated for an array in Numeric?
> My application uses a lot of memory and I need to free some as it goes 
> along.
>
Assuming this is all in Python, you just need to delete all names bound 
to the array.

 >>> del arr

This will remove the memory for arr assuming there are no other arrays 
referencing arr's memory (i.e. from indexing expresssions arr[3,:] and 
or name binds).  


-Travis