[python] Delete all objects in a list

I create many object then I store in a list. But I want to delete them after some time because I create news one and don't want my memory goes high (in my case, it jumps to 20 gigs of ram if I don't delete it).

Here is a little code to illustrate what I trying to do:

class test:
    def __init__(self):
        self.a = "Hello World"
    def kill(self):
        del self

a = test()
b = test()
c = [a,b]

print("1)Before:",a,b)

for i in c:
    del i

for i in c:
    i.kill()   

print("2)After:",a,b)

A and B are my objects. C is a list of these two objects. I'm trying to delete it definitely with a for-loop in C: one time with DEL and other time with a function. It's not seem to work because the print continue to show the objects.

I need this because I create 100 000 objects many times. The first time I create 100k object, the second time another 100k but I don't need to keep the previous 100k. If I don't delete them, the memory usage goes really high, very quickly.

To delete all objects in a list, you can directly write list = []

Here is example:

>>> a = [1, 2, 3]
>>> a
[1, 2, 3]
>>> a = []
>>> a
[]

If the goal is to delete the objects a and b themselves (which appears to be the case), forming the list [a, b] is not helpful. Instead, one should keep a list of strings used as the names of those objects. These allow one to delete the objects in a loop, by accessing the globals() dictionary.

c = ['a', 'b']
# create and work with a and b    
for i in c:
    del globals()[i]

Here's how you delete every item from a list.

del c[:]

Here's how you delete the first two items from a list.

del c[:2]

Here's how you delete a single item from a list (a in your case), assuming c is a list.

del c[0]