BUG: Fix refcounting for string comparison in array_richcompare

[njsmith]

Regression introduced in 4b1f508

Closes gh-6250.

[njsmith]

This will need a backport to the 1.10 branch too.

[pitrou]

Has Numpy ever thought of running the test suite in a "reference leak hunting" mode like CPython does? That would help catch those regressions more easily.

[njsmith]

Not to my knowledge. Is there a reference for how this is done?
On Aug 27, 2015 1:40 AM, "Antoine Pitrou" notifications@github.com wrote:

Has Numpy ever thought of running the test suite in a "reference leak
hunting" mode like CPython does? That would help catch those regressions
more easily.

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[pitrou]

It's quite a messy thing in CPython's own regression test script, but I managed to rewrite it more cleanly for the llvmlite test suite, for use with plain unittest. I don't know whether it's compatible with nose:
https://github.com/numba/llvmlite/blob/master/llvmlite/tests/customize.py

The main requirement is the need for a debug Python interpreter.

[charris]

Thanks Nathaniel.