summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/Lib/urllib
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorPablo Galindo <Pablogsal@gmail.com>2019-11-19 21:34:03 (GMT)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2019-11-19 21:34:03 (GMT)
commit293dd23477eef6e7c1b1e26b5bb2c1e0d79ac3c2 (patch)
tree295b4eee204f0d1e4723e62825a86310ddc27578 /Lib/urllib
parentc6b20be85c0de6f2355c67ae6e7e578941275cc0 (diff)
downloadcpython-293dd23477eef6e7c1b1e26b5bb2c1e0d79ac3c2.zip
cpython-293dd23477eef6e7c1b1e26b5bb2c1e0d79ac3c2.tar.gz
cpython-293dd23477eef6e7c1b1e26b5bb2c1e0d79ac3c2.tar.bz2
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
Diffstat (limited to 'Lib/urllib')
-rw-r--r--Lib/urllib/request.py2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/urllib/request.py b/Lib/urllib/request.py
index 721c152..ebc4118 100644
--- a/Lib/urllib/request.py
+++ b/Lib/urllib/request.py
@@ -1778,7 +1778,7 @@ class URLopener:
hdrs = fp.info()
fp.close()
return url2pathname(_splithost(url1)[1]), hdrs
- except OSError as msg:
+ except OSError:
pass
fp = self.open(url, data)
try: