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authorFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2003-07-21 17:17:10 +0000
committerFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2003-07-21 17:17:10 +0000
commit01a4312a774fc8091e369f040fb081ced5faa6b5 (patch)
tree7ee16cfd6ac1ac6a255e2ea184b10d63a6d25e25
parentFix memory leak reported & discussed on the Python XML-SIG mailing list. (diff)
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Added note about the pyexpat memory leak fix.
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@@ -19,6 +19,11 @@ Extension modules
fatal internal refcount confusion when the module got initialized more
than once. This has been fixed.
+- Fixed memory leak in pyexpat; using the parser's ParseFile() method
+ with open files that aren't instances of the standard file type
+ caused an instance of the bound .read() method to be leaked on every
+ call.
+
Library
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