Issue #22836: Merge exception reporting from 3.5

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Python/pythonrun.c b/Python/pythonrun.c
index 8829699f60..cc2de9a22b 100644
--- a/Python/pythonrun.c
+++ b/Python/pythonrun.c
@@ -766,8 +766,11 @@ print_exception(PyObject *f, PyObject *value)
         /* only print colon if the str() of the
            object is not the empty string
         */
-        if (s == NULL)
+        if (s == NULL) {
+            PyErr_Clear();
             err = -1;
+            PyFile_WriteString(": <exception str() failed>", f);
+        }
         else if (!PyUnicode_Check(s) ||
             PyUnicode_GetLength(s) != 0)
             err = PyFile_WriteString(": ", f);
@@ -776,6 +779,9 @@ print_exception(PyObject *f, PyObject *value)
         Py_XDECREF(s);
     }
     /* try to write a newline in any case */
+    if (err < 0) {
+        PyErr_Clear();
+    }
     err += PyFile_WriteString("\n", f);
     Py_XDECREF(tb);
     Py_DECREF(value);