SystemError always a bug?

[Gerrit Holl]

Hi,

am I right that the following is a bug:

(Python 2.3b1+)
 51 >>> class Foo(object):
 51 ...  def __getstate__(self): raise
 51 ...
 52 >>> copy.copy(Foo())
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/copy.py", line 87,
in copy
    rv = reductor(2)
SystemError: NULL object passed to Py_BuildValue

...because it raises a SystemError?

I already submitted it as SF#749831. Python 2.2 does not have this problem
but complains about a missing __copy__. Whet an error is raised in __copy__
this problem doesn't occur. This problem originated while pickling when I
found out copying has the same effect.

yours,
Gerrit.

-- 
61. If the gardener has not completed the planting of the field,
leaving one part unused, this shall be assigned to him as his.
        -- 1780 BC, Hammurabi, Code of Law
--
Asperger Syndroom - een persoonlijke benadering:
	http://people.nl.linux.org/~gerrit/
Het zijn tijden om je zelf met politiek te bemoeien:
	http://www.sp.nl/