[lxml-dev] Does etree.iter() handle the refcount properly?

[Andrew Wang]

Hi,

I just started using lxml and I ran into an odd problem. I'm using
version 2.0.4-14 from the OpenSuSE repositories.

import lxml.etree as etree

# test.py
xml = '''\
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xml/>'''

for i in range(10000):
    et = etree.fromstring(xml)
    for el in et.iter():
        pass

$ python test.py
Fatal Python error: deallocating None
Aborted

Is this a bug, or am I using etree.iter() incorrectly?

Thanks,
Andrew