Memory leak

[alex116321 at my-deja.com]

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):

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#Note: using del doesn't seem to help
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import win32com.client

o = win32com.client.Dispatch("microsoft.xmldom")
o.loadXML("<test/>")

for idx in range(50000):
	node = o.selectSingleNode("//test")

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Any suggestions would be appreciated.



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