[New-bugs-announce] [issue31675] Tkinter: memory leak in splitlines() and split()

[Serhiy Storchaka]

New submission from Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka+cpython at gmail.com>:

There is a memory leak in Tkinter's methods splitlines() and split() when pass a string larger than 2 GiB (when encoded to UTF-8).

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components: Tkinter
messages: 303599
nosy: serhiy.storchaka
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: patch review
status: open
title: Tkinter: memory leak in splitlines() and split()
type: resource usage
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.6, Python 3.7

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