[cairo] pyPango

[Jeffrey Britton]

There is a severe memory leak in pyPango create_layout()
I found a prior post about this on the pyGtk mailing list in July 2010 by
Cladio Cilloni.

import pango
import cairo
import pangocairo

surface = cairo.ImageSurface(cairo.FORMAT_ARGB32, 400, 300)
cr = pangocairo.CairoContext(cairo.Context(surface))
for i in xrange(500000):
    layout = cr.create_layout()
    cr.show_layout(layout)

I am running this on Windows.
I installed
pygtk-all-in-one-2.24.0.win32-py2.7.msi
cairo.version = 1.8.10
pango.version() = 12803

Does anybody know if this is a bug in the Python binding or if it is a bug
in the 'C' version of Pango or if is Windows specific?
Is there a place where I should report the bug?
Is there a different mailing list I should be posting this on?

If i move create_layout() out of the loop the problem goes away for the
most part.
Can I create the layout just once and then use the following as necessary
layout.set_text()
cr.update_layout()
cr._show_layout()




Thanks.
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