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  r78766 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-03-07 11:10:51 -0600 (Sun, 07 Mar 2010) | 1 line

  prevent generator finalization from invalidating sys.exc_info() #7173
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1 files changed, 16 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_exceptions.py b/Lib/test/test_exceptions.py
index 6aa8102..b10835d 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_exceptions.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_exceptions.py
@@ -6,7 +6,8 @@ import unittest
 import pickle
 import weakref
 
-from test.support import TESTFN, unlink, run_unittest, captured_output
+from test.support import (TESTFN, unlink, run_unittest, captured_output,
+                          gc_collect)
 
 # XXX This is not really enough, each *operation* should be tested!
 
@@ -554,6 +555,20 @@ class ExceptionTests(unittest.TestCase):
             del g
             self.assertEquals(sys.exc_info()[0], TypeError)
 
+    def test_generator_finalizing_and_exc_info(self):
+        # See #7173
+        def simple_gen():
+            yield 1
+        def run_gen():
+            gen = simple_gen()
+            try:
+                raise RuntimeError
+            except RuntimeError:
+                return next(gen)
+        run_gen()
+        gc_collect()
+        self.assertEqual(sys.exc_info(), (None, None, None))
+
     def test_3114(self):
         # Bug #3114: in its destructor, MyObject retrieves a pointer to
         # obsolete and/or deallocated objects.