From: Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 17:17:10 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Added note about the pyexpat memory leak fix.
X-Git-Tag: v2.3c2~38
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=01a4312a774fc8091e369f040fb081ced5faa6b5;p=python

Added note about the pyexpat memory leak fix.
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index ae3c4efbfd..ce7aba2a44 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -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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