[issue14762] ElementTree memory leak

2012-05-09 Thread Giuseppe Attardi
New submission from Giuseppe Attardi : I confirm the presence of a serious memory leak in ElementTree, using the iterparse() function. Memory grows disproportionately to dozens of GB when parsing a large XML file. For further information, see discussion in: http://www.gossamer-threads.com

[issue14762] ElementTree memory leak

2012-05-09 Thread Giuseppe Attardi
Giuseppe Attardi added the comment: You are right, I should discard the elements. Thank you. -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue14762> ___ ___

[issue14762] ElementTree memory leak

2012-05-09 Thread Giuseppe Attardi
Changes by Giuseppe Attardi : -- resolution: -> invalid status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue14762> ___ ___ Python-bugs-