From 6f889ad32f5297f9e0775df3477788a7e19bcac3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>
Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2010 02:11:45 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Merged revisions 81712 via svnmerge from
 svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk

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  r81712 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-06-04 21:07:01 -0500 (Fri, 04 Jun 2010) | 1 line

  _PyObject_LookupSpecial returns a new reference
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---
 Objects/abstract.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/Objects/abstract.c b/Objects/abstract.c
index 1b6c2b42796..9fb56b6b179 100644
--- a/Objects/abstract.c
+++ b/Objects/abstract.c
@@ -716,6 +716,7 @@ PyObject_Format(PyObject *obj, PyObject *format_spec)
 
     /* And call it. */
     result = PyObject_CallFunctionObjArgs(meth, format_spec, NULL);
+    Py_DECREF(meth);
 
     if (result && !PyUnicode_Check(result)) {
         PyErr_SetString(PyExc_TypeError,