[ python-Bugs-1534630 ] Python 2.5 svn crash in _elementtree.c

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Bugs item #1534630, was opened at 2006-08-04 08:29
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Category: Extension Modules
Group: Python 2.5
Status: Open
Resolution: None
>Priority: 8
Submitted By: Barry A. Warsaw (bwarsaw)
Assigned to: Fredrik Lundh (effbot)
Summary: Python 2.5 svn crash in _elementtree.c

Initial Comment:
/F's sourceforge screen scraper tool triggered a crash
in _elementtree.c in the latest Python 2.5 svn.  It
seems that a Py_DECREF should probably be a Py_XDECREF
unless there's some other logic bug I'm missing. 
Here's the patch if it's the former.

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>Comment By: Neal Norwitz (nnorwitz)
Date: 2006-08-10 21:21

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I don't think this patch will address the underlying
problem.  There are many DECREFs (and no XDECREFs) of
last->text.  It seems that the code believes there cannot be
a NULL.  Perhaps all the DECREFs of last->text should be
XDECREF?

I would really like this to get done for 2.5, but it
shouldn't block release.  Dropping priority.

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