Big chunck of memory using pandas loc

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Big chunck of memory using pandas loc - mr_byte31 - Aug-23-2018

Hi All,

I created a script to save information from internet into pandas dataframe and later I save it in CSV file.

First I create an empty pd using :

result = pd.DataFrame(index = df_CSV['Ticker'], columns = keyStatistics)

later in the code, I start to modify each element inside a loop using

result.loc[ticker,keyStatistics[i]]= td.string

I noticed that the program is taking more than 1G in memory and keep increasing with time.

is there any memory leaks inside the panda loc method?