From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 23:15:42 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Be a bit more careful with printing a warning for a failed __del__.
X-Git-Tag: v1.4b3~43
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ad8997887b5300caef0f347a07f39b3ff94b034a;p=python

Be a bit more careful with printing a warning for a failed __del__.
---

diff --git a/Objects/classobject.c b/Objects/classobject.c
index 57768988cd..191b5568c0 100644
--- a/Objects/classobject.c
+++ b/Objects/classobject.c
@@ -404,8 +404,11 @@ instance_dealloc(inst)
 		object *res = call_object(del, (object *)NULL);
 		DECREF(del);
 		if (res == NULL) {
-			writestring("exception in __del__ method ignored\n",
-				    sysget("stderr"));
+			PyObject *f = sysget("stderr");
+			err_clear();
+			if (f != NULL)
+				writestring(
+				  "exception in __del__ method ignored\n", f);
 		}
 		else
 			DECREF(res);