Bug fix: check whether call succeeded *after* the call.

diff --git a/Modules/stropmodule.c b/Modules/stropmodule.c
index 4a10b7cf4048c97c9b8a624d15d89046a22824f3..6686abf58f19c94c301b19bbb77452db4893296f 100644 (file)
--- a/Modules/stropmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/stropmodule.c
@@ -382,8 +382,8 @@ initstrop()
                if (isspace(c))
                        buf[n++] = c;
        }
+       s = newsizedstringobject(buf, n);
        if (s) {
-               s = newsizedstringobject(buf, n);
                dictinsert(d, "whitespace", s);
                DECREF(s);
        }