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

[Stefan Behnel]

Hi,

Andrew Wang wrote:
> 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?

Works for me in the latest version.

Stefan