From baced5668a5d251b8838a657baa0f648aa6afd10 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brett Cannon <brett@python.org>
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 14:03:16 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Fix a refleak in _sre

---
 Misc/NEWS      | 2 ++
 Modules/_sre.c | 1 +
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index ffd8433a7dc..a0af8cdd599 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -54,6 +54,8 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Fix a reference count leak in _sre.
+
 - Issue #19262: Initial check in of the 'asyncio' package (a.k.a. Tulip,
   a.k.a. PEP 3156).  There are no docs yet, and the PEP is slightly
   out of date with the code.  This module will have *provisional* status
diff --git a/Modules/_sre.c b/Modules/_sre.c
index 2b00121a255..0db4ebed719 100644
--- a/Modules/_sre.c
+++ b/Modules/_sre.c
@@ -2427,6 +2427,7 @@ next:
         else
             item = PyUnicode_Join(joiner, list);
         Py_DECREF(joiner);
+        Py_DECREF(list);
         if (!item)
             return NULL;
     }