Merged revisions 74046 via svnmerge from

svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/py3k

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  r74046 | hirokazu.yamamoto | 2009-07-17 15:55:42 +0900 | 13 lines

  Merged revisions 74040,74042 via svnmerge from
  svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk

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    r74040 | hirokazu.yamamoto | 2009-07-17 15:20:46 +0900 | 1 line

    Issue #6415: Fixed warnings.warn sagfault on bad formatted string.
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    r74042 | hirokazu.yamamoto | 2009-07-17 15:26:54 +0900 | 1 line

    NEWS about r74040.
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Lib/test/test_warnings.py

@@ -338,6 +338,20 @@ def test_warn_explicit_type_errors(self):
                             self.module.warn_explicit,
                             None, Warning, None, 1, registry=42)
 
+    def test_bad_str(self):
+        # issue 6415
+        # Warnings instance with a bad format string for __str__ should not
+        # trigger a bus error.
+        class BadStrWarning(Warning):
+            """Warning with a bad format string for __str__."""
+            def __str__(self):
+                return ("A bad formatted string %(err)" %
+                        {"err" : "there is no %(err)s"})
+
+        with self.assertRaises(ValueError):
+            self.module.warn(BadStrWarning())
+
+
 class CWarnTests(BaseTest, WarnTests):
     module = c_warnings
 

Misc/NEWS

@@ -34,6 +34,8 @@ C-API
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #6415: Fixed warnings.warn sagfault on bad formatted string.
+
 - Issue #6358: The exit status of a command started with os.popen() was
   reported differently than it did with python 2.x.
 

Python/_warnings.c

@@ -320,6 +320,8 @@ warn_explicit(PyObject *category, PyObject *message,
     }
     if (rc == 1) {
         text = PyObject_Str(message);
+        if (text == NULL)
+            goto cleanup;
         category = (PyObject*)message->ob_type;
     }
     else {