xml parser memory leak???

[Victor Muslin]

Using Python 2.1 on Windows 2000 platform.

The following program produces a HUGE memory leak, but only when the
parsed request is malformed. Unfortunately, when the request is
malformed it is not possible to unlink dom for the deallocation (i.e.
"dom.unlink()" inside except clause), because dom is undefined.

Any suggestions?

TIA

import xml.dom.minidom

good = '<request>yada yada yada</request>'
bad = '<foo>yada yada yada</bar>'

for i in range(2000):
    try:
        dom = xml.dom.minidom.parseString(bad)
        dom.unlink()
    except xml.sax._exceptions.SAXParseException, e:
        pass