[issue14596] struct.unpack memory leak

[Robert Elsner]

Robert Elsner <robert.elsner2 at googlemail.com> added the comment:

I would love to test but I am in a production environment atm and can't really spare the time to set up a test box. But maybe somebody with access to 2.7 on linux could test it with the supplied script (just start it and it should happily eat 8GB of memory - I think most users are going to notice ;)

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