[reportlab-users] memory leak in reportlab xmllib.FastXMLParser

[Robin Becker]

I suspect we've had this problem for a long time in the sgmlop c extension 
module. Originally the paraparser.py module used to create just one parser for 
use by all the paragraph instances, but I think Andy recent changed that to 
create one for each instance in a vain attempt to stop threading issues.

I'll take a look at the sgmlop.c code to see if I can spot this; that code is 
very old and not our originally. It certainly doesn't cooperate with GC at all.


On 17/12/2013 16:14, Mirko Dziadzka wrote:

> Hi

>

> I’m not sure if this is the right list for a bug report, any pointers to another address are welcome.

>

> Problem description

> ===============

>

> The following program creates a memory leak.

>

> As a result, using reportlab.platypus.paraparser.ParaParser creates a memory leak too.

> As a result, wordaxe has a memory leak (my original problem)

>

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Robin Becker