Memory leak

Mark Hammond MarkH at ActiveState.com
Tue Jan 2 19:48:18 EST 2001


alex116321 at my-deja.com wrote:

> I am experiencing memory leakage when using Python and COM.
> Specifically, I am using the Micosoft XML Parser to load and traverse
> XML DOM stuctures.  Everytime I access an XML node, more memory is
> consumed.  After a while, this can eat away most of the system
> resources if the Python session is not terminated.  Here is a simple
> example (assume the interpreter is used as a server and does not exit):

You don't say what version of anything.

With the latest versions, (and using "xrange" instead of range) I see no 
leaks at all - perfectly flat memory usage.

Mark.




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