Stefan Krah added the comment:

On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 08:21:17AM +0000, Serhiy Storchaka wrote:
> In the particular case of getround() in _decimal.c, seems the worst case is 
> raising TypeError instead of MemoryError in pretty rare circumstances. This 
> is not critically bad, there are a lot of other places where the initial 
> exception is silently replaced by less specific exception. But the code 
> *looks* fragile.

No, it does not.  It is obvious to a human that -1 <==> "not equal".

If Coccinelle does not understand that, well ...

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