[Python-bugs-list] [ python-Bugs-489670 ] memory leak in test_re

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Bugs item #489670, was opened at 2001-12-05 18:42
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Category: Python Interpreter Core
Group: Python 2.2
Status: Open
Resolution: None
>Priority: 7
Submitted By: Neal Norwitz (nnorwitz)
>Assigned to: Guido van Rossum (gvanrossum)
Summary: memory leak in test_re

Initial Comment:
leak when running test_descr
may be related to bug #485152
"memory leak from marshal.c (test_email)"

see attached file for details


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Comment By: Guido van Rossum (gvanrossum)
Date: 2001-12-06 14:10

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Hard to say what's going on here, and hard to whittle it
down (see my comments for the leak in test_sre.py -- they
apply here too, since it's almost the same test suite).
Again, all that Purify tells us is that the leaked object is
a string (this time read from a .pyc file).

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