On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 05:20, Alex Martelli wrote:
On 2004 Jun 24, at 17:15, Jeremy Hylton wrote:
On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 01:22, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote:
"If no exception is active in the current scope, an exception is raised indicating this error."
"This" error probably being "no active exception", not "exception must not be NoneType".
We can determine statically whether an exception would active in the current scope, right? If the raise does not occur within an except handler, then there is no active exception in the current scope. I think it should be a SyntaxError.
Isn't the "raise" allowed to occur in a function that may be _called from_ an except handler? E.g.:
def foo(): ... print "do something here" ... raise ... try: 1/0 ... except Exception: foo()
The definition of what it means for an exception to be "active" in a scope needs to be clarified. The language reference doesn't appear to define what that means, so I took a narrow reading. I think the code you mention later in your post is code I wrote :-). Jeremy