- pythunrun.c, Py_Finalize(): move the call to _Py_PrintReferences()
even farther down, to just before the call to
_PyObject_DebugMallocStats(). This required the following changes:
- pystate.c, PyThreadState_GetDict(): changed not to raise an
exception or issue a fatal error when no current thread state is
available, but simply return NULL without raising an exception
(ever).
- object.c, Py_ReprEnter(): when PyThreadState_GetDict() returns NULL,
don't raise an exception but return 0. This means that when
printing a container that's recursive, printing will go on and on
and on. But that shouldn't happen in the case we care about (see
first bullet).
- Updated Misc/NEWS and Doc/api/init.tex to reflect changes to
PyThreadState_GetDict() definition.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 4f24edc..70bc17c 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -150,6 +150,10 @@
C API
-----
+- PyThreadState_GetDict() was changed not to raise an exception or
+ issue a fatal error when no current thread state is available. This
+ makes it possible to print dictionaries when no thread is active.
+
- LONG_LONG was renamed to PY_LONG_LONG.
- Added PyObject_SelfIter() to fill the tp_iter slot for the