bpo-33612: Remove PyThreadState_Clear() assertion (GH-7069) (GH-7074)
bpo-25612, bpo-33612: Remove an assertion from PyThreadState_Clear()
which failed at Python shutdown or on fork if a thread was running a
generator.
(cherry picked from commit b6dccf54fd3bac9c87348d96f9d6b571608c15bc)
Co-authored-by: Victor Stinner <vstinner@redhat.com>
diff --git a/Python/pystate.c b/Python/pystate.c
index 7750f4c..15761e7 100644
--- a/Python/pystate.c
+++ b/Python/pystate.c
@@ -581,7 +581,6 @@
Py_CLEAR(tstate->exc_state.exc_traceback);
/* The stack of exception states should contain just this thread. */
- assert(tstate->exc_info->previous_item == NULL);
if (Py_VerboseFlag && tstate->exc_info != &tstate->exc_state) {
fprintf(stderr,
"PyThreadState_Clear: warning: thread still has a generator\n");