From 017f7780a88656172af93a2e164b20468fd9c45c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 18:56:03 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Make tuples less hungry -- an extra item was allocated but
 never used. Tip by Vladimir Marangozov.

---
 Objects/tupleobject.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Objects/tupleobject.c b/Objects/tupleobject.c
index 9bc1fe7416b..2286b01dbe1 100644
--- a/Objects/tupleobject.c
+++ b/Objects/tupleobject.c
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ PyTuple_New(size)
 #endif
 	{
 		op = (PyTupleObject *) malloc(
-			sizeof(PyTupleObject) + size * sizeof(PyObject *));
+			sizeof(PyTupleObject) + (size-1) * sizeof(PyObject *));
 		if (op == NULL)
 			return PyErr_NoMemory();