On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 6:12 AM, Nick Coghlan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ncoghlan@gmail.com">ncoghlan@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">Dino Viehland wrote:<br>
> We had a bug reported that effectively boils down to we're not<br>
> swallowing exceptions when list calls __len__<br>
> (<a href="http://www.codeplex.com/WorkItem/View.aspx?ProjectName=IronPython&WorkItemId=20598" target="_blank">http://www.codeplex.com/WorkItem/View.aspx?ProjectName=IronPython&WorkItemId=20598</a>).<br>
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> We can obviously make the change to catch exceptions here in<br>
> IronPython even if it seems like a bad idea to me ☺ But CPython<br>
> seems to catch not only normal exceptions, but also SystemExit. It<br>
> seems like there's been a move away from this so I thought I'd<br>
> mention it here. I tested it on 2.6.1 and 3.0.<br>
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</div>I'd agree that CPython appears to be the one misbehaving here, rather<br>
than IronPython.<br>
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Opening a new issue at <a href="http://bugs.python.org" target="_blank">bugs.python.org</a> would be the best way forward.<br>
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There is already a bug for this, I believe: <br>
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<a href="http://bugs.python.org/issue1242657">http://bugs.python.org/issue1242657</a><br>
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Karen <br></div></div>