From 832c79280831b65a544b8aa49f4839b1e3663c02 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Orlitzky <michael@orlitzky.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2024 20:52:19 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] src/sage/doctest/forker.py: remove old python 2 workaround

According to the comment, we can skip clearing this exception nowadays
because we only support python3.
---
 src/sage/doctest/forker.py | 10 ----------
 1 file changed, 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/sage/doctest/forker.py b/src/sage/doctest/forker.py
index 18bab126bb0..8bddadc1f48 100644
--- a/src/sage/doctest/forker.py
+++ b/src/sage/doctest/forker.py
@@ -716,16 +716,6 @@ def compiler(example):
                 raise
             except BaseException:
                 exception = sys.exc_info()
-                # On Python 2, the exception lives in sys.exc_info() as
-                # long we are in the same stack frame. To ensure that
-                # sig_occurred() works correctly, we need to clear the
-                # exception. This is not an issue on Python 3, where the
-                # exception is cleared as soon as we are outside of the
-                # "except" clause.
-                try:
-                    sys.exc_clear()
-                except AttributeError:
-                    pass  # Python 3
             finally:
                 if self.debugger is not None:
                     self.debugger.set_continue()  # ==== Example Finished ====