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Diffstat (limited to 'Lib/test/test_threading.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/test/test_threading.py | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_threading.py b/Lib/test/test_threading.py index 8c8cc128b0..6ac4ea9623 100644 --- a/Lib/test/test_threading.py +++ b/Lib/test/test_threading.py @@ -1140,7 +1140,11 @@ class ExceptHookTests(BaseTestCase): raise ValueError("bug") except Exception as exc: args = threading.ExceptHookArgs([*sys.exc_info(), None]) - threading.excepthook(args) + try: + threading.excepthook(args) + finally: + # Explicitly break a reference cycle + args = None stderr = stderr.getvalue().strip() self.assertIn(f'Exception in thread {threading.get_ident()}:\n', stderr) |