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Diffstat (limited to 'Lib/threading.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/threading.py | 12 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/threading.py b/Lib/threading.py index 2f472b47aa..005d40c63e 100644 --- a/Lib/threading.py +++ b/Lib/threading.py @@ -442,11 +442,13 @@ class Thread(_Verbose): _sleep(0.000001) # 1 usec, to let the thread run (Solaris hack) def run(self): - if self.__target: - self.__target(*self.__args, **self.__kwargs) - # Avoid a refcycle if the thread is running a function with an - # argument that has a member that points to the thread. - del self.__target, self.__args, self.__kwargs + try: + if self.__target: + self.__target(*self.__args, **self.__kwargs) + finally: + # Avoid a refcycle if the thread is running a function with + # an argument that has a member that points to the thread. + del self.__target, self.__args, self.__kwargs def __bootstrap(self): # Wrapper around the real bootstrap code that ignores |