From 5b56efbac22da89db8a0ec6274b3603aa8be236e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Zach Hammer <zachary_hammer@alumni.brown.edu>
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2019 22:11:11 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Free soundex out string on deallocation

---
 src/fuzzy.pyx | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/fuzzy.pyx b/src/fuzzy.pyx
index c09fe7f..f7415e5 100644
--- a/src/fuzzy.pyx
+++ b/src/fuzzy.pyx
@@ -224,10 +224,10 @@ cdef class Soundex:
             out[i] = 48
         out[self.size] = 0
 
-        pout = out
-        free(out)
-
-        return pout
+        try:
+            return out
+        finally:
+            free(out)
 
 
 cdef extern from "double_metaphone.h":