GH-94644: fix test_curses ref leak (GH-94647)

(cherry picked from commit 277f55cb04409ccdf651d43df5eb9dcb3ee3128c)

Co-authored-by: Kumar Aditya <59607654+kumaraditya303@users.noreply.github.com>

diff --git a/Modules/_cursesmodule.c b/Modules/_cursesmodule.c
index 7e2699e1b5c5bbeb6cfb5e14fc358d1bf83925c0..c10b2b302c6024b982192ae6ea73a5a93befb738 100644 (file)
--- a/Modules/_cursesmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/_cursesmodule.c
@@ -383,6 +383,7 @@ PyCurses_ConvertToString(PyCursesWindowObject *win, PyObject *obj,
             return 0;
         /* check for embedded null bytes */
         if (PyBytes_AsStringAndSize(*bytes, &str, NULL) < 0) {
+            Py_CLEAR(*bytes);
             return 0;
         }
         return 1;