SF patch #798534: Windows os.popen needlessly gets a reference to tuple ()

(Contributed by Andrew Gaul.)

Fixes a minor leak.

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 21248e6753c3fe36cb049e15ff1b278e27a8790f..a4397e61fe6b12e6016ded3768f991bcb28883fe 100644 (file)
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ Core and builtins
 Extension modules
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+- 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