Usually in .net, the clr takes care of memory management. Is there any need for a programmer to explicitly release memory and resources? If yes, why and how?

Do we need to call the explicit methods to destroy the memory allocated in python?

How can you explicitly free memory in python?

In .net compact framework, can we free memory explicitly without waiting for garbage collector to free the memory?

Can we free memory explicitly without waiting for garbage collector to free the memory in .net compact framework?