Python high memory usage with BeautifulSoup

Question

I was trying to process several web pages with BeautifulSoup4 in python 2.7.3 but after every parse the memory usage goes up and up.

This simplified code produces th

Answer 1

Try garbage collecting:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import gc

def parse():
    f = open("index.html", "r")
    page = BeautifulSoup(f.read(), "lxml")
    page = None
    gc.collect()
    f.close()

while True:
    parse()
    raw_input()

See also:

Python garbage collection