From b5cebfe164fbf6c862e8aa9fb91628d1b8cf76be Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org>
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 17:48:27 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] PyLong_FromString(): Nailed a small memory leak.  In the
 str==start test, we forgot that z is still pointing to a real live object.
 DECREF() it before returning.

---
 Objects/longobject.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/Objects/longobject.c b/Objects/longobject.c
index 834b8a87521..7c805a5259f 100644
--- a/Objects/longobject.c
+++ b/Objects/longobject.c
@@ -769,6 +769,7 @@ PyLong_FromString(str, pend, base)
 	if (str == start) {
 		PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ValueError,
 				"no digits in long int constant");
+		Py_DECREF(z);
 		return NULL;
 	}
 	if (sign < 0 && z != NULL && z->ob_size != 0)