From bf338300ff50bef79b774f0ab956db7cea260c80 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 13:38:36 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add a missing DECREF in an error exit.  Submitted by Jonathan
 Giddy.

---
 Modules/stropmodule.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/Modules/stropmodule.c b/Modules/stropmodule.c
index 3921d3460eb..240a056f6f3 100644
--- a/Modules/stropmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/stropmodule.c
@@ -228,6 +228,7 @@ strop_joinfields(self, args)
 		if (item && !PyString_Check(item)) {
 			PyErr_SetString(PyExc_TypeError,
 				 "first argument must be sequence of strings");
+			Py_DECREF(item);
 			return NULL;
 		}
 		return item;