SF bug #1503294.
PyThreadState_GET() complains if the tstate is NULL, but only in debug mode.
diff --git a/Objects/dictobject.c b/Objects/dictobject.c
index f9e45fd..c02f1b2 100644
--- a/Objects/dictobject.c
+++ b/Objects/dictobject.c
@@ -561,7 +561,7 @@
/* We can arrive here with a NULL tstate during initialization:
try running "python -Wi" for an example related to string
interning. Let's just hope that no exception occurs then... */
- tstate = PyThreadState_GET();
+ tstate = _PyThreadState_Current;
if (tstate != NULL && tstate->curexc_type != NULL) {
/* preserve the existing exception */
PyObject *err_type, *err_value, *err_tb;