bpo-33612: Remove PyThreadState_Clear() assertion (#7069)

vstinner · web-flow · commit b6dccf54fd3b · 2018-05-23T18:00:55.000+02:00
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.
diff --git a/Python/pystate.c b/Python/pystate.c
@@ -586,7 +586,6 @@ PyThreadState_Clear(PyThreadState *tstate)
     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");
