Understanding memory consumption increase in python using Requests HTTP library

Question

I am using python v2.7 and Requests HTTP library. I am using windows 7 OS.

I have failed to understand why the following code consumes more and more memory upon exec

Answer 1

I can only second some of the comments on your original post. I found http://www.digi.com/wiki/developer/index.php/Python_Garbage_Collection to be quite useful in case you want to gain better insight into the gc.