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+Fix potential memory leak in ``normalizestring()``.
@@ -78,8 +78,6 @@ PyObject *normalizestring(const char *string)
     }
     p[i] = '\0';
     v = PyUnicode_FromString(p);
-    if (v == NULL)
-        return NULL;
     PyMem_Free(p);
     return v;
 }
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	1	+ Fix potential memory leak in ``normalizestring()``.
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78	78	}
79	79	p[i] = '\0';
80	80	v = PyUnicode_FromString(p);
81		- if (v == NULL)
82		- return NULL;
83	81	PyMem_Free(p);
84	82	return v;
85	83	}