memory leak parsing xml using xml.dom.minidom

Question

I\'m using xml.dom.minidom to parse xml files, somewhat like this:

import xml.dom.minidom as dom

file= open(\'file.xml\')
doc= dom.parse(file)
# SNIP
doc.un         


        

Answer 1

I am also observing the same issues with minidom! And we are not alone. See for example here.

There it is suggested to use an other XML implementations with python binding like

• xml.etree.ElementTree: alternative implementation in the Python standard library
• libxml2: XML C parser with python bindings
• lxml: a more pythonic binding to libxml2