[lxml-dev] memory leak in el.get() ?

[Stefan Behnel]

Scott Haeger wrote:
> I am getting a memory leak using the get attribute method.  The
> following will illustrate the problem:
> 
> el = etree.Element("element")
> el.set('a', 'first')
> 
> while True:
>     x = el.get('a')
> 
> Memory usage as displayed in top continues will continue to grow.
> 
> I am using the following:
> lxml 0.8
> libxml2 2.6.23
> Fedora Core 3
> 
> Scott


Fixed. You can either use the current SVN version (trunk or scoder2 branch) or
apply the attached patch by hand.

Stefan
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