Apparently this patch (rev 2.41) replaced all the good old "s#"
    formats in PyArg_ParseTuple() with "S".  Then it did
    PyString_FromStringAndSize() to get back the values setup by the
    "s#" format.  It also incref'd and decref'd the string obtained by
    "S" even though the argument tuple had a reference to it.

Replace PyString_AsString() calls with PyString_AS_STRING().

    A good rule of thumb -- if you never check the return value of
    PyString_AsString() to see if it's NULL, you ought to be using the
    macro <wink>.