From c84d8bd7be6ea7ce21973da06e821e01604dda4f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 00:11:40 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Simple fix from Jin Fulton to avoid returning a
 half-initialized module when e.g. copy_reg.py doesn't exist.  This caused a
 core dump.

This closes SF bug 112944.
---
 Modules/cPickle.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Modules/cPickle.c b/Modules/cPickle.c
index b64b1f13779..7161c2e413e 100644
--- a/Modules/cPickle.c
+++ b/Modules/cPickle.c
@@ -4521,6 +4521,8 @@ initcPickle(void) {
     PyObject *format_version;
     PyObject *compatible_formats;
 
+    if (init_stuff(m, d) < 0) return;
+
     Picklertype.ob_type = &PyType_Type;
     Unpicklertype.ob_type = &PyType_Type;
     PdataType.ob_type = &PyType_Type;
@@ -4542,6 +4544,4 @@ initcPickle(void) {
     PyDict_SetItemString(d, "compatible_formats", compatible_formats);
     Py_XDECREF(format_version);
     Py_XDECREF(compatible_formats);
-
-    init_stuff(m, d);
 }