bpo-33612: Remove PyThreadState_Clear() assertion (GH-7069) (GH-7074)

bpo-25612, bpo-33612: Remove an assertion from PyThreadState_Clear()
which failed at Python shutdown or on fork if a thread was running a
generator.
(cherry picked from commit b6dccf5)

Co-authored-by: Victor Stinner <[email protected]>

Author: 2 people

Python/pystate.c

@@ -581,7 +581,6 @@ PyThreadState_Clear(PyThreadState *tstate)
     Py_CLEAR(tstate->exc_state.exc_traceback);
 
     /* The stack of exception states should contain just this thread. */
-    assert(tstate->exc_info->previous_item == NULL);
     if (Py_VerboseFlag && tstate->exc_info != &tstate->exc_state) {
         fprintf(stderr,
           "PyThreadState_Clear: warning: thread still has a generator\n");