From bc1c025bfe5fe25606776aaf440e8c7989be36f5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jbrockmendel <jbrockmendel@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2019 13:59:43 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] CLN: dont alter state when returning data/values

---
 pandas/io/pytables.py | 10 ++++------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pandas/io/pytables.py b/pandas/io/pytables.py
index a95d7f39ab82c..1089dec059dbf 100644
--- a/pandas/io/pytables.py
+++ b/pandas/io/pytables.py
@@ -2010,9 +2010,8 @@ def convert(
         self.values = _set_tz(self.values, self.tz)
 
     def take_data(self):
-        """ return the values & release the memory """
-        self.values, values = None, self.values
-        return values
+        """ return the values"""
+        return self.values
 
     @property
     def attrs(self):
@@ -2288,9 +2287,8 @@ def set_data(self, data: Union[np.ndarray, ABCExtensionArray]):
             self.set_kind()
 
     def take_data(self):
-        """ return the data & release the memory """
-        self.data, data = None, self.data
-        return data
+        """ return the data """
+        return self.data
 
     def set_kind(self):
         # set my kind if we can