Re: [lxml-dev] Huge memory leak in latest 2.0

Hi, Artur Siekielski wrote:

I'm using latest 2.0 version from trunk, rev. 49494 (because it supports 'encoding' keyword in HTMLParser). I'm parsing many HTML documents in loop, 100-200kB each. I have noticed that memory used by my program increases about 1MB after each document processed, so after a few hundreds of passes system is about to hang. Running the same code with lxml 1.3.6 doesn't cause such memory usage increase.

I'm using the following library calls: tree = etree.parse( <opened file>, HTMLParser(encoding=...)) etree.tostring(tree) el.xpath(...) getting children and attributes of elements

thanks for the report, I can reproduce this with a simple call to the parser. I'll look into it. Stefan