From b27cd3e5ad9e3da24cdce7f498fa64d2994788a0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Victor Stinner <victor.stinner@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 22:20:44 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Issue #18408: Fix list.pop() to handle list_resize() failure
 (MemoryError).

---
 Objects/listobject.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Objects/listobject.c b/Objects/listobject.c
index 0c82cc40eca..b18ef5763af 100644
--- a/Objects/listobject.c
+++ b/Objects/listobject.c
@@ -925,8 +925,10 @@ listpop(PyListObject *self, PyObject *args)
     v = self->ob_item[i];
     if (i == Py_SIZE(self) - 1) {
         status = list_resize(self, Py_SIZE(self) - 1);
-        assert(status >= 0);
-        return v; /* and v now owns the reference the list had */
+        if (status >= 0)
+            return v; /* and v now owns the reference the list had */
+        else
+            return NULL;
     }
     Py_INCREF(v);
     status = list_ass_slice(self, i, i+1, (PyObject *)NULL);