Antoine Pitrou added the comment:
"hg annotate" shows it dates back to 4f0b7acffc7d by Guido, with the following
diff:
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -150,6 +150,10 @@
C API
-----
+- PyThreadState_GetDict() was changed not to raise an exception or
+ issue a fatal error when no current thread state is available. This
+ makes it possible to print dictionaries when no thread is active.
+
- LONG_LONG was renamed to PY_LONG_LONG.
- Added PyObject_SelfIter() to fill the tp_iter slot for the
diff --git a/Objects/object.c b/Objects/object.c
--- a/Objects/object.c
+++ b/Objects/object.c
@@ -2119,7 +2119,7 @@
dict = PyThreadState_GetDict();
if (dict == NULL)
- return -1;
+ return 0;
list = PyDict_GetItemString(dict, KEY);
if (list == NULL) {
list = PyList_New(0);
Unless Guido has changed his mind about it, I'd close this issue as rejected ;-)
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nosy: +gvanrossum, pitrou
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