[triangle-zpug] why is this using a lot of memory?

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

intervals=10000000 #some large number
height=0
for x in range(0, intervals):
 	height+=x

(I get the same result whether running interactive or from a 
file with the above code)

For a sufficiently large value of "intervals" the program 
exits immediately with a MemoryError. For slightly smaller 
values, the program takes up most of the memory of the 
machine. I would have thought that you'd only be allocating 
a couple of variables. What am I missing? Am I allocating an 
"intervals" number of something, rather than a single 
variable with a large value?

thanks Joe

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