revert 7b833bd1f509. I misread the side effect that the code was triggering.

*any* kwarg supplied to _assert_python causes it to not append -E to the
command line flags so without='-E' does effectively work.

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/Python/_warnings.c b/Python/_warnings.c
index bef56479b3..a1f4368ebe 100644
--- a/Python/_warnings.c
+++ b/Python/_warnings.c
@@ -637,16 +637,17 @@ get_category(PyObject *message, PyObject *category)
 
     if (rc == 1)
         category = (PyObject*)message->ob_type;
-    else if (category == NULL)
+    else if (category == NULL || category == Py_None)
         category = PyExc_UserWarning;
 
     /* Validate category. */
     rc = PyObject_IsSubclass(category, PyExc_Warning);
-    if (rc == -1)
-        return NULL;
-    if (rc == 0) {
-        PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ValueError,
-                        "category is not a subclass of Warning");
+    /* category is not a subclass of PyExc_Warning or
+       PyObject_IsSubclass raised an error */
+    if (rc == -1 || rc == 0) {
+        PyErr_Format(PyExc_TypeError,
+                     "category must be a Warning subclass, not '%s'",
+                     Py_TYPE(category)->tp_name);
         return NULL;
     }