Memory leak

[alex116321 at my-deja.com]

This is exactly what I am doing except I don't call Py_Finalize until
the program is terminated.  Instead, I call the Python script over and
over again to perform a certain function.  This seems to eat away at my
resources and over time, the program may crash.

Alex

In article <1103_978530180 at display_02>,
  Patrick Blanchette <pblanchette at pixelsystems.com> wrote:
> I experienced a similar problem when I run script that use the win32
extension embeded in a server.
> When I call the Py_Finalize method, the memory is not free
completely.
> I think the Patch #101713 talk about this problem.  It seems that
python have problem
> handling multiple Py_Initialize and Py_Finalise when extension are
used.
>
> I hope this problem will be corrected soon.
>
> On Tue, 02 Jan 2001 19:00:48 GMT, alex116321 at my-deja.com wrote:
> > I am experiencing memory leakage when using Python and COM.
> > Specifically, I am using the Micosoft XML Parser to load and
traverse
> > XML DOM stuctures.  Everytime I access an XML node, more memory is
> > consumed.  After a while, this can eat away most of the system
> > resources if the Python session is not terminated.  Here is a simple
> > example (assume the interpreter is used as a server and does not
exit):
> >
> > ############################################
> > #Note: using del doesn't seem to help
> > ############################################
> > import win32com.client
> >
> > o = win32com.client.Dispatch("microsoft.xmldom")
> > o.loadXML("<test/>")
> >
> > for idx in range(50000):
> > 	node = o.selectSingleNode("//test")
> >
> > #############################################
> >
> > Any suggestions would be appreciated.
> >
> >
> >
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