[issue35502] Memory leak in xml.etree.ElementTree.iterparse

[STINNER Victor]

STINNER Victor <vstinner at redhat.com> added the comment:

I wrote attached run.py which confirms a leak using tracemalloc:

$ python3 run.py 
1 calls: 15.3B / call (total: 15.3 kB)
100 calls: 15.3B / call (total: 1527.7 kB)
1000 calls: 15.3B / call (total: 15265.0 kB)

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nosy: +vstinner
Added file: https://bugs.python.org/file47998/run.py

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