memory leak in lxml xpath function

[simon77]

Using the latest available version of lxml in Jaunty (2.1.5-1 ubuntu 2) on a 64 bit system

- A memory leak is encountered in python lxml.
- Repetitive calls of the xpath method in etree imported from lxml fill up memory
- Installing and compiling a recent version of lxml fixes this memory leak.

Small python example below. Just pass some sentences to getPath.

#! /usr/bin/env python
from lxml import etree

def getPath(sentence,path):

    root = etree.fromstring(sentence)

    r = root.xpath(path)

[scoder (scoder)]

This sounds like a bug that was fixed in 2.2beta3. Please use a 2.2.x release instead.