From 44cc728b25e83eef88cdc76b9fee5ef532bb005b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jean-pierre charras <jp.charras@wanadoo.fr>
Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2017 16:25:11 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] enforce a control to avoid crash if pcbnew.py is an incorrect
 version (bad install).

---
 pcbnew/swig/python_scripting.cpp | 9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pcbnew/swig/python_scripting.cpp b/pcbnew/swig/python_scripting.cpp
index 876832baba..3c574266c9 100644
--- a/pcbnew/swig/python_scripting.cpp
+++ b/pcbnew/swig/python_scripting.cpp
@@ -213,8 +213,13 @@ static void pcbnewRunPythonMethodWithReturnedString( const char* aMethodName, wx
     PyLOCK      lock;
     PyErr_Clear();
 
-    PyObject*   globals     = PyDict_New();
-    PyObject*   builtins    = PyImport_ImportModule( "pcbnew" );
+    PyObject* builtins = PyImport_ImportModule( "pcbnew" );
+    wxASSERT( builtins );
+
+    if( !builtins ) // Something is wrong in pcbnew.py module (incorrect version?)
+        return;
+
+    PyObject* globals = PyDict_New();
     PyDict_SetItemString( globals, "pcbnew", builtins );
     Py_DECREF( builtins );