[issue7309] crasher in str(Exception())

[Eric Smith]

Eric Smith <eric at trueblade.com> added the comment:

> A much better solution would IMHO be to forbid setting the encoding,
> object and reason attributes to objects of the wrong type in the first
> place. Unfortunately this would require an extension to PyMemberDef for
> the T_OBJECT and T_OBJECT_EX types.

Agreed that's a better approach. But I wanted to get the fix in for 2.6 
and 3.1.

You can open another issue if you'd like. I'm going to close this one as 
soon as I get the crash fixed.

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