[Python-Dev] segfault - potential double free when using iterparse

[Terry Reedy]

On 6/12/2012 9:40 AM, Alon Horev wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> First of all, I'm not opening a bug yet as I'm not certain whether this
> is a CPython bug or lxml bug.

lxml is more likely, making this a topic for python-list and whatever 
lxml list.

...
> from lxml.etree import iterparse
...

> anyone familiar with these kind of bugs in c extensions/cpython/lxml?
> could you give pointers to what I should be looking for?

I would ask the generic question on python-list and report the problem 
to lxml folks also.

> some version info:
> CPython version: 2.7.2 on linux.

2.7.3 has 6 months more of bugfixes, and if there is a problem with 
python, you would have to demonstrate a problem with that or a more 
recent build.

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Terry Jan Reedy