From 97d723bd6219f2d460a68137e5e23533888164c2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Neil Schemenauer <nascheme@enme.ucalgary.ca>
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 16:25:07 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] - do not start collection during processing of an exception

---
 Modules/gcmodule.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Modules/gcmodule.c b/Modules/gcmodule.c
index cf884814d23..ba950327770 100644
--- a/Modules/gcmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/gcmodule.c
@@ -502,7 +502,11 @@ _PyGC_Insert(PyObject *op)
 		abort();
 	}
 #endif
-	if (allocated > threshold0 && enabled && threshold0 && !collecting) {
+	if (allocated > threshold0 &&
+	    enabled &&
+	    threshold0 &&
+	    !collecting &&
+	    !PyErr_Occurred()) {
 		collecting++;
 		collect_generations();
 		collecting--;