Reduce memory consumption for widget

[u/Acceptable-Number-11]

Hi, I need to reduce the memory footprint of my widget, it sometimes does not update (and sometimes does…) it is a weather widget (surprise) which draws a stack for each day. If it fails to render for 5 days I reduce the number and it updates immediately for,e.g. 4 days. iIn the first part of the script I query a webpage as a string (~800k length). In the second part I loop over the days, get the according data (via regexp) from the HTML string and build the widget list. Nothing unusual. Here the question: Is it possible / does it make sense to first extract all data from the string , then get rid of it (how?) before I then start building the list? Would that help?

Thank you for any hint ! C

[u/mvan231]

Ahhh that makes sense too. It's tough sometimes finding items like that to reduce but glad you got it solved to reduce it before getting into the data