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  r74727 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-09-08 18:04:22 -0500 (Tue, 08 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  #6865 fix ref counting in initialization of pwd module
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Misc/NEWS

@@ -778,6 +778,9 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
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+- Issue #6865: Fix reference counting issue in the initialization of the pwd
+  module.
+
 - Issue #3741: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an
   exception.
 

Modules/pwdmodule.c

@@ -194,6 +194,7 @@ initpwd(void)
 	Py_INCREF((PyObject *) &StructPwdType);
 	PyModule_AddObject(m, "struct_passwd", (PyObject *) &StructPwdType);
 	/* And for b/w compatibility (this was defined by mistake): */
+        Py_INCREF((PyObject *) &StructPwdType);
 	PyModule_AddObject(m, "struct_pwent", (PyObject *) &StructPwdType);
 	initialized = 1;
 }