From a14a70d8c93d9e10b76d6f0e5c0d9d1c99f29f20 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Philippe Laporte <philippe@distributive.network>
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2024 16:57:56 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] check if exception was set before clearing it

---
 src/JSObjectProxy.cc | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/JSObjectProxy.cc b/src/JSObjectProxy.cc
index a3fe2e1f..675219bf 100644
--- a/src/JSObjectProxy.cc
+++ b/src/JSObjectProxy.cc
@@ -438,7 +438,9 @@ PyObject *JSObjectProxyMethodDefinitions::JSObjectProxy_repr(JSObjectProxy *self
       }
     } else {
       // clear any exception that was just set
-      PyErr_Clear();
+      if (PyErr_Occurred()) {
+        PyErr_Clear();
+      }
 
       if (_PyUnicodeWriter_WriteASCIIString(&writer, "<cannot repr type>", 19)  < 0) {
         goto error;