Fix crash in itertools.cycle.__setstate__() caused by lack of type checking.

Will backport after the 3.6 release is done.

Lib/test/test_itertools.py

@@ -613,6 +613,39 @@ class TestBasicOps(unittest.TestCase):
         for proto in range(pickle.HIGHEST_PROTOCOL + 1):
             self.pickletest(proto, cycle('abc'))
 
+    def test_cycle_setstate(self):
+        # Verify both modes for restoring state
+
+        # Mode 0 is efficient.  It uses an incompletely consumed input
+        # iterator to build a cycle object and then passes in state with
+        # a list of previously consumed values.  There is no data
+        # overlap bewteen the two.
+        c = cycle('defg')
+        c.__setstate__((list('abc'), 0))
+        self.assertEqual(take(20, c), list('defgabcdefgabcdefgab'))
+
+        # Mode 1 is inefficient.  It starts with a cycle object built
+        # from an iterator over the remaining elements in a partial
+        # cycle and then passes in state with all of the previously
+        # seen values (this overlaps values included in the iterator).
+        c = cycle('defg')
+        c.__setstate__((list('abcdefg'), 1))
+        self.assertEqual(take(20, c), list('defgabcdefgabcdefgab'))
+
+        # The first argument to setstate needs to be a tuple
+        with self.assertRaises(SystemError):
+            cycle('defg').__setstate__([list('abcdefg'), 0])
+
+        # The first argument in the setstate tuple must be a list
+        with self.assertRaises(TypeError):
+            c = cycle('defg')
+            c.__setstate__((dict.fromkeys('defg'), 0))
+            take(20, c)
+
+        # The first argument in the setstate tuple must be a list
+        with self.assertRaises(TypeError):
+            cycle('defg').__setstate__((list('abcdefg'), 'x'))
+
     def test_groupby(self):
         # Check whether it accepts arguments correctly
         self.assertEqual([], list(groupby([])))