. The data wasn’t increasing so there must have been some memory leak.
It’s not so easy for a Python application to leak memory. Usually there are three scenarios:
1. some low level C library is leaking
2. your Python code have global lists or dicts that grow over time, and you forgot to remove the objects after use
3. there are some reference cycles in your app
Everyone's got their data in XML these days. You need to read it. You've looked at the other XML APIs and they all contain miles of crud that's only necessary when parsing the most arcane documents. Wouldn't it be nice to have an easy-to-use API for the normal XML documents you deal with? That's xmltramp:
Candygram is a Python implementation of Erlang concurrency primitives. Erlang is widely respected for its elegant built-in facilities for concurrent programming. This package attempts to emulate those facilities as closely as possible in Python. With Candygram, developers can send and receive messages between threads using semantics nearly identical to those in the Erlang language.