commit 095d99ffffbcee6d33523c439dc6a81a6787c5b6
author Victor Stinner <victor.stinner@gmail.com> Wed Jul 17 21:58:01 2013 +0200
committer Victor Stinner <victor.stinner@gmail.com> Wed Jul 17 21:58:01 2013 +0200
tree 4d9fec15c49216e7ec70e4b6f77a3afa11d1ae6c
parent 479054bca7722daa2e6b62da474fd49c8fafbbee

Issue #18408: Fix listpop(), handle list_ass_slice() failure

Objects/listobject.c

diff --git a/Objects/listobject.c b/Objects/listobject.c
index 0ec70e5..ce6b708 100644
--- a/Objects/listobject.c
+++ b/Objects/listobject.c
@@ -934,12 +934,10 @@
     }
     Py_INCREF(v);
     status = list_ass_slice(self, i, i+1, (PyObject *)NULL);
-    assert(status >= 0);
-    /* Use status, so that in a release build compilers don't
-     * complain about the unused name.
-     */
-    (void) status;
-
+    if (status < 0) {
+        Py_DECREF(v);
+        return NULL;
+    }
     return v;
 }