docs: Resolve several exception handling/propagation issues in the examples.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/docs/examples/tutorial/string/c_func.pyx b/docs/examples/tutorial/string/c_func.pyx
index 3c94587fe..4763f2671 100644
--- a/docs/examples/tutorial/string/c_func.pyx
+++ b/docs/examples/tutorial/string/c_func.pyx
@@ -8,7 +8,8 @@ cdef Py_ssize_t n = strlen(hello_world)
 cdef char* c_call_returning_a_c_string():
     cdef char* c_string = <char *> malloc((n + 1) * sizeof(char))
     if not c_string:
-        raise MemoryError()
+        return NULL  # malloc failed
+
     strcpy(c_string, hello_world)
     return c_string
 
@@ -16,7 +17,7 @@ cdef char* c_call_returning_a_c_string():
 cdef void get_a_c_string(char** c_string_ptr, Py_ssize_t *length):
     c_string_ptr[0] = <char *> malloc((n + 1) * sizeof(char))
     if not c_string_ptr[0]:
-        raise MemoryError()
+        return  # malloc failed
 
     strcpy(c_string_ptr[0], hello_world)
     length[0] = n