From: Victor Stinner <vstinner@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 23 May 2018 16:00:55 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: bpo-33612: Remove PyThreadState_Clear() assertion (#7069)
X-Git-Tag: v3.8.0a1~1774
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b6dccf54fd3bac9c87348d96f9d6b571608c15bc;p=python

bpo-33612: Remove PyThreadState_Clear() assertion (#7069)

bpo-25612, bpo-33612: Remove an assertion from PyThreadState_Clear()
which failed at Python shutdown or on fork if a thread was running a
generator.
---

diff --git a/Python/pystate.c b/Python/pystate.c
index d276bfc7e8..4534c4770f 100644
--- a/Python/pystate.c
+++ b/Python/pystate.c
@@ -586,7 +586,6 @@ PyThreadState_Clear(PyThreadState *tstate)
     Py_CLEAR(tstate->exc_state.exc_traceback);
 
     /* The stack of exception states should contain just this thread. */
-    assert(tstate->exc_info->previous_item == NULL);
     if (Py_VerboseFlag && tstate->exc_info != &tstate->exc_state) {
         fprintf(stderr,
           "PyThreadState_Clear: warning: thread still has a generator\n");