diff --git a/Doc/Manual/Python.html b/Doc/Manual/Python.html
index c15a19dac..9925eca15 100644
--- a/Doc/Manual/Python.html
+++ b/Doc/Manual/Python.html
@@ -4416,10 +4416,12 @@ arrays of different sizes.  To do this, you might write a typemap as follows:
   for (i =0; i < $1_dim0; i++) {
       PyObject *o = PySequence_GetItem($input,i);
       if (!PyFloat_Check(o)) {
+         Py_XDECREF(o);
          PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ValueError,"Expecting a sequence of floats");
          return NULL;
       }
       temp[i] = PyFloat_AsDouble(o);
+      Py_DECREF(o);
   }
   $1 = &temp[0];
 }
@@ -4460,10 +4462,12 @@ static int convert_darray(PyObject *input, double *ptr, int size) {
   for (i =0; i < size; i++) {
       PyObject *o = PySequence_GetItem(input,i);
       if (!PyFloat_Check(o)) {
+         Py_XDECREF(o);
          PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ValueError,"Expecting a sequence of floats");
          return 0;
       }
       ptr[i] = PyFloat_AsDouble(o);
+      Py_DECREF(o);
   }
   return 1;
 }