Hi, I am reposting this message from python-dev.
Could someone please test the code below to verify that there is indeed a problem with eval() under python 2.3.5. I have rebuilt python 2.3.5 under the latest debian and under RH 7.3 (in case the problem is in system libraries). The following code causes the virtual memory allocation to constantly increase until there is no more memory left (the VIRT column of the 'top' utility display). ----- #! /usr/bin/env python # # evalleak.py def builddict(): d = {} for i in xrange(10000): d[i] = { "int": 0, "str": "nada", "dict": {} } return d if __name__ == "__main__": d = builddict() st = str(d) print "len(st): %d" % len(st) while 1: d = eval(st) ----- Thanks, John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list