BUG: core: Fix memory leak in the C function boundarraymethod_repr.

`dtypes` must be DECREF'd before the function returns.

Closes gh-19931.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/numpy/core/src/multiarray/array_method.c b/numpy/core/src/multiarray/array_method.c
index 03d67c81b..c4db73c3b 100644
--- a/numpy/core/src/multiarray/array_method.c
+++ b/numpy/core/src/multiarray/array_method.c
@@ -466,7 +466,6 @@ NPY_NO_EXPORT PyTypeObject PyArrayMethod_Type = {
 };
 
 
-
 static PyObject *
 boundarraymethod_repr(PyBoundArrayMethodObject *self)
 {
@@ -476,9 +475,11 @@ boundarraymethod_repr(PyBoundArrayMethodObject *self)
     if (dtypes == NULL) {
         return NULL;
     }
-    return PyUnicode_FromFormat(
-            "<np._BoundArrayMethod `%s` for dtypes %S>",
-            self->method->name, dtypes);
+    PyObject *repr = PyUnicode_FromFormat(
+                        "<np._BoundArrayMethod `%s` for dtypes %S>",
+                        self->method->name, dtypes);
+    Py_DECREF(dtypes);
+    return repr;
 }