Serhiy Storchaka added the comment:

True, even I were not sure which should mean which. ;)

> When I manually trigger the code in typeobject.c:5827, I get a segfault;
I'm surprised no test triggered that.

I think this triggered one of Victor's guards, added to catch such sort of 
errors. In this case the function both raises an exception and returns a 
result. If not catch such sort of error, it can cause unexpected errors or very 
strange results during executing unrelated code, so crashing as early as 
possible is lesser evil.

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