From b78165566ef353187f00419cb9c1c18e5dae1383 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org>
Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 22:27:10 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Exception__str__(): In case 1, be sure to decref the tmp
 local variable.  This crushes another memory leak.  Slight rewrite included.

---
 Python/exceptions.c | 12 ++++++++----
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Python/exceptions.c b/Python/exceptions.c
index c32e15ccbc5..f766ba5ef34 100644
--- a/Python/exceptions.c
+++ b/Python/exceptions.c
@@ -231,7 +231,6 @@ static PyObject*
 Exception__str__(PyObject* self, PyObject* args)
 {
     PyObject* out;
-    PyObject* tmp;
 
     if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "O", &self))
         return NULL;
@@ -245,11 +244,16 @@ Exception__str__(PyObject* self, PyObject* args)
         out = PyString_FromString("");
         break;
     case 1:
-	if (!(tmp = PySequence_GetItem(args, 0)))
-	    out = NULL;
-	else
+    {
+	PyObject* tmp = PySequence_GetItem(args, 0);
+	if (tmp) {
 	    out = PyObject_Str(tmp);
+	    Py_DECREF(tmp);
+	}
+	else
+	    out = NULL;
 	break;
+    }
     default:
         out = PyObject_Str(args);
         break;