[issue27529] Tkinter memory leak on OS X

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[issue27529] Tkinter memory leak on OS X

Ned Deily added the comment: tkinter is pretty much just a thin wrapper around the Tcl/Tk C API so suspicion for behavior like this should start there. Usually, the easiest way to confirm that is to write an equivalent test in Tcl using its wish shell but, in this case, there's an even easier

[issue27529] Tkinter memory leak on OS X

Ned Deily added the comment: tkinter is pretty much just a thin wrapper around the Tcl/Tk C API so suspicion for behavior like this start there. Usually, the easiest way to confirm that is to write an equivalent test in Tcl using its wish shell but, in this case, there's an even easier way.

[issue27529] Tkinter memory leak on OS X

New submission from Mirano Tuk: There seems to be a memory leak in tkinter on OSX (Windows and Linux don't seem to be affected). Explicitly calling Tk.update() sometimes permanently allocates a multiple of 4096 bytes. Allocation happens more frequently if update calls are in close succession.