Outrageous memory usage with cElementTree (found it)

[Shahms King]

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The problem is not with ElementTree, but can be traced to a specific
regular expression:

_escape = re.compile(u'[&<>"\x80-\uffff]+')

The memory usage doesn't go down after:

>>> del _escape
>>> re.purge()
>>> gc.collect()

either.  I suspect it's a bug/misplaced optimization in the re module,
but haven't investigated any further than that.  The specific problem
with the regular expression in the \x80-\uffff range.  Changing that to
'\ufffa-\uffff' gets rid of the astronomical memory usage.  I'm going to
keep looking into this as it's a particularly vexing bug ;-P

I've updated the bugzilla bug to reflect these changes.


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