Crash report

What happened?

gh-149754 / gh-149738 prevent calling del connection.row_factory on a sqlite3 connection, and document that this is not allowed both for connections and for cursor objects, but the code does not prevent del cursor.row_factory which causes a segfault when the cursor tries to construct a row.

This code currently segfaults (or debug abort on calling null pointer)

import sqlite3

cur = sqlite3.connect(":memory:").cursor()
del cur.row_factory
cur.execute("select 1").fetchone()

this is due to cursor.row_factory becoming NULL and then the cursor iterator doing this:

The IsNone check does not check for NULL values, so the flow falls through to the PyObject_Vectorcall

The fix seems to be the same as was made for the connection, just guarding against deletion of the row_factory attribute.

CPython versions tested on:

CPython main branch

Operating systems tested on:

Linux

Output from running 'python -VV' on the command line:

Python 3.16.0a0 (heads/del-rowcursor:df2538adfdc, Jul 1 2026, 19:02:00) [Clang 21.0.0 (clang-2100.3.20.102)]

Linked PRs

• gh-152817: Prevent deletion of sqlite3 cursor.row_factory attr, missed from: gh-149738 #152818
• [3.15] gh-152817: Prevent deletion of sqlite3 cursor.row_factory attr (GH-152818) #156160
• [3.14] gh-152817: Prevent deletion of sqlite3 cursor.row_factory attr (GH-152818) #156161
• [3.13] gh-152817: Prevent deletion of sqlite3 cursor.row_factory attr (GH-152818) #156162