[Bug 624592] gst-python: plugin: attempt to load plugin "python" fails with KeyError

[GStreamer (bugzilla.gnome.org)]

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=624592
  GStreamer | gst-python | git

Dave Malcolm <dmalcolm> changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Dave Malcolm <dmalcolm at redhat.com> 2011-07-23 14:46:23 UTC ---
FWIW, Python 2.7 removed a call to PyErr_Clear in the import machinery, and
this was backported to 2.6.6

This is: http://svn.python.org/view?view=revision&revision=79204
where the significant change seems to be:
http://svn.python.org/view/python/branches/release26-maint/Python/import.c?r1=79204&r2=79203&pathrev=79204
apparently motivated by http://bugs.python.org/issue3137

So I believe that this gstreamer code was always setting the thread-local
exception state, but in older python versions it was being cleared; but in 2.7
and 2.6.6 onwards you'll see the exception.

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