Moved the initalization of the exception before the initialization of sys.
On Windows _PySys_Init() could raise an uninitialized exception which leads to a seg fault.
diff --git a/Python/pythonrun.c b/Python/pythonrun.c
index 044c4a9..763f905 100644
--- a/Python/pythonrun.c
+++ b/Python/pythonrun.c
@@ -217,6 +217,9 @@
Py_FatalError("Py_Initialize: can't initialize builtins dict");
Py_INCREF(interp->builtins);
+ /* initialize builtin exceptions */
+ _PyExc_Init();
+
sysmod = _PySys_Init();
if (sysmod == NULL)
Py_FatalError("Py_Initialize: can't initialize sys");
@@ -239,9 +242,6 @@
_PyImport_Init();
- /* initialize builtin exceptions */
- _PyExc_Init();
-
/* phase 2 of builtins */
_PyImport_FixupExtension("__builtin__", "__builtin__");