From 864c0c19dd53fd91d80241b137858bc1bbb0e212 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 04:24:34 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] SF patch #798534:  Windows os.popen needlessly gets a
 reference to tuple () (Contributed by Andrew Gaul.)

Fixes a minor leak.
---
 Misc/NEWS | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 21248e6753c3..a4397e61fe6b 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ Core and builtins
 Extension modules
 -----------------
 
+- Patch #798534:  fixed memory leak in os.popen().
+
 - Bug #793826:  re-ordered the reference counting code in
   itertools.izip() to prevent re-entrancy anomalies.  Also,
   if given zero arguments, it now returns an empty iterator
-- 
2.47.3