From c90ad2103eb9aca14b7a910cbcdcd7b570f690ab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 23:17:48 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] No longer need to be very careful with saving the exception
 state first.  Don't store the traceback as a local variable, to avoid
 circular references.

---
 Lib/SocketServer.py | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Lib/SocketServer.py b/Lib/SocketServer.py
index ecd405fe096..049a4b6cc77 100644
--- a/Lib/SocketServer.py
+++ b/Lib/SocketServer.py
@@ -248,12 +248,11 @@ class TCPServer:
 	The default is to print a traceback and continue.
 
 	"""
-	exc, value, tb = sys.exc_type, sys.exc_value, sys.exc_traceback
 	print '-'*40
 	print 'Exception happened during processing of request from',
 	print client_address
 	import traceback
-	traceback.print_exception(exc, value, tb)
+	traceback.print_exc()
 	print '-'*40