From cce2267cf117e634e4ff307ca9339075e79bdee9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Heller <theller@ctypes.org>
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 08:11:56 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Plug a leak in the ctypes test suite when tests are run
 repeatedly.

---
 Lib/ctypes/test/test_keeprefs.py | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Lib/ctypes/test/test_keeprefs.py b/Lib/ctypes/test/test_keeprefs.py
index 39e70e335c..7318f290e6 100644
--- a/Lib/ctypes/test/test_keeprefs.py
+++ b/Lib/ctypes/test/test_keeprefs.py
@@ -140,5 +140,10 @@ class PointerToStructure(unittest.TestCase):
         r.a[0].x = 42
         r.a[0].y = 99
 
+        # to avoid leaking when tests are run several times
+        # clean up the types left in the cache.
+        from ctypes import _pointer_type_cache
+        del _pointer_type_cache[POINT]
+
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     unittest.main()
-- 
2.40.0