[2.7] bpo-31411: Prevent raising a SystemError in case warnings.onceregistry is not a dictionary. (GH-3485). (#3493)

(cherry picked from commit 252033d50effa08046ac34fcc406bc99796ab88b)
diff --git a/Python/_warnings.c b/Python/_warnings.c
index 8e8c0cc..dd168f9 100644
--- a/Python/_warnings.c
+++ b/Python/_warnings.c
@@ -72,6 +72,12 @@
             return NULL;
         return _once_registry;
     }
+    if (!PyDict_Check(registry)) {
+        PyErr_SetString(PyExc_TypeError,
+                        "warnings.onceregistry must be a dict");
+        Py_DECREF(registry);
+        return NULL;
+    }
     Py_DECREF(_once_registry);
     _once_registry = registry;
     return registry;
@@ -296,7 +302,7 @@
     int rc;
 
     if (registry && !PyDict_Check(registry) && (registry != Py_None)) {
-        PyErr_SetString(PyExc_TypeError, "'registry' must be a dict");
+        PyErr_SetString(PyExc_TypeError, "'registry' must be a dict or None");
         return NULL;
     }