New submission from Ofer Sadan <ofersada...@gmail.com>:
running `urllib.request.urlopen` multiple times causes the memory usage to increase with each run, even after calling `close()` on the request or using `del` on the result To recreate this problem, run code: import urllib.request def ip(): r = urllib.request.urlopen('https://api.ipify.org') b = r.read() r.close() print(len(b)) return b for i in range(1000): result = ip() del result Even though `len(b)` has a maximum value of 15 (for this url at least), the memory increases with each run by 200KB - 1MB ---------- components: Library (Lib) messages: 352968 nosy: Ofer Sadan priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: urllib.request memory leak / overflow versions: Python 3.7 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue38251> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com