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authorPablo Galindo <Pablogsal@gmail.com>2019-11-19 21:34:03 (GMT)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2019-11-19 21:34:03 (GMT)
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Remove binding of captured exceptions when not used to reduce the chances of creating cycles (GH-17246)
Capturing exceptions into names can lead to reference cycles though the __traceback__ attribute of the exceptions in some obscure cases that have been reported previously and fixed individually. As these variables are not used anyway, we can remove the binding to reduce the chances of creating reference cycles. See for example GH-13135
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diff --git a/Lib/importlib/abc.py b/Lib/importlib/abc.py
index 4b2d3de..b1b5ccc 100644
--- a/Lib/importlib/abc.py
+++ b/Lib/importlib/abc.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ except ImportError as exc:
_frozen_importlib = None
try:
import _frozen_importlib_external
-except ImportError as exc:
+except ImportError:
_frozen_importlib_external = _bootstrap_external
import abc
import warnings