From 8d109cb0436e76448b2a413833bc867d490f6cca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org>
Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 04:26:35 +0000
Subject: Antoine Pitrou's patch for bug 2507; exception state lives too long
 in 3.0.

---
 Python/ceval.c | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

(limited to 'Python/ceval.c')

diff --git a/Python/ceval.c b/Python/ceval.c
index bac8278126..defd00299f 100644
--- a/Python/ceval.c
+++ b/Python/ceval.c
@@ -1477,6 +1477,19 @@ PyEval_EvalFrameEx(PyFrameObject *f, int throwflag)
 					"'finally' pops bad exception");
 				why = WHY_EXCEPTION;
 			}
+			/*
+			  Make sure the exception state is cleaned up before
+			  the end of an except block. This ensures objects
+			  referenced by the exception state are not kept
+			  alive too long.
+			  See #2507.
+			*/
+			if (tstate->frame->f_exc_type != NULL)
+				reset_exc_info(tstate);
+			else {
+				assert(tstate->frame->f_exc_value == NULL);
+				assert(tstate->frame->f_exc_traceback == NULL);
+			}
 			Py_DECREF(v);
 			break;
 
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