From 2e6407d813c09bc1bab8572fd26bdc50d9f0ef4e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>
Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 23:11:54 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Practice EAFP, and revert 62787

---
 Lib/warnings.py | 3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Lib/warnings.py b/Lib/warnings.py
index 132a34da287..d9e6e445872 100644
--- a/Lib/warnings.py
+++ b/Lib/warnings.py
@@ -278,9 +278,6 @@ def warn_explicit(message, category, filename, lineno,
                 _show_warning(message, category, filename, lineno)
             else:
                 warn(showwarning_msg, DeprecationWarning)
-    if not callable(showwarning):
-        raise TypeError("warnings.showwarning() must be set to a "
-                        "function or method")
     # Print message and context
     showwarning(message, category, filename, lineno)