From b724d59dd85b40481542bb4aa08f527ffa542b05 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Travis Oliphant <oliphant@enthought.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 17:13:53 +0000
Subject: Fix refleake discussed in #848.  Only applied part of the patch.

---
 numpy/core/src/scalartypes.inc.src | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'numpy')

diff --git a/numpy/core/src/scalartypes.inc.src b/numpy/core/src/scalartypes.inc.src
index 3feefc070..680a5eca8 100644
--- a/numpy/core/src/scalartypes.inc.src
+++ b/numpy/core/src/scalartypes.inc.src
@@ -1883,10 +1883,11 @@ static PyObject *
 
     _WORK@work@
 
-        if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "|O", &obj)) return NULL;
+    if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "|O", &obj)) return NULL;
 
     typecode = PyArray_DescrFromType(PyArray_@TYPE@);
-    Py_INCREF(typecode);
+    /* typecode is new reference and stolen by 
+       PyArray_Scalar and others */
     if (obj == NULL) {
 #if @default@ == 0
         char *mem;
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