[Python-Dev] Rethinking intern() and its data structure

[Robert Collins]

On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 11:52 +0000, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> Robert Collins <robert.collins <at> canonical.com> writes:
> > 
> > (errors.py is 3027 lines long with 347 exception classes).
> 
> 347 exception classes? Perhaps your framework is over-engineered.
> 
> Similarly, when using a heavy Web framework, reloading a Web app can take
> several seconds... but I won't blame Python for that.

Well, we've added exceptions as we needed them. This isn't much
different to errno in C programs; the errno range has expanded as people
have wanted to signal that specific situations have arisen. The key
thing for us is to have both something that can be caught (for library
users of bzrlib) and something that can be formatted with variable
substitution (for displaying to users). If there are better ways to
approach this in python than what we've done, that would be great.

-Rob
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