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

Fixes a minor leak.
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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