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Author	vstinner
Recipients	eric.snow, methane, serhiy.storchaka, vstinner
Date	2018-05-31.14:16:40
SpamBayes Score	-1.0
Marked as misclassified	Yes
Message-id	<[email protected]>
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> The tp_clear handler of OrderedDict can set an exception when fail to allocate a nodes cache for an empty dict. An exception in tp_clear is not expected and caused a crash in the garbage collector. If it's a cache, it would be better to cancel the caching, and just destroy the dictionary, no?

> The tp_clear handler of OrderedDict can set an exception when fail to allocate a nodes cache for an empty dict. An exception in tp_clear is not expected and caused a crash in the garbage collector.

If it's a cache, it would be better to cancel the caching, and just destroy the dictionary, no?

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Date	User	Action	Args
2018-05-31 14:16:40	vstinner	set	recipients: + vstinner, methane, eric.snow, serhiy.storchaka
2018-05-31 14:16:40	vstinner	set	messageid: <[email protected]>
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