[issue11849] ElementTree memory leak

2011-04-15 Thread Kaifeng Zhu
Kaifeng Zhu added the comment: Yes. Just tested with Python 2.7 and 3.2 in Windows 7, the memory usage is still unexpected high after 'Done' is printed. -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.o

[issue11849] ElementTree memory leak

2011-04-15 Thread Kaifeng Zhu
New submission from Kaifeng Zhu : I'm using xml.etree.ElementTree to parse large XML file, while the memory keep increasing consistently. You can run attached test script to reproduce it. From 'top' in Linux or 'Task Manager' in Windows, the memory usage of p