Hi Nick, given I'm "guilty" for this patch, I'd reply :) On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 15:55, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 6:38 PM, ezio.melotti <python-checkins@python.org> wrote:
-.. [#] The exception is propagated to the invocation stack only if there is no - :keyword:`finally` clause that negates the exception. +.. [#] The exception is propagated to the invocation stack unless + there is a :keyword:`finally` clause which happens to raise another + exception. That new exception causes the old one to be lost.
I believe the footnote was talking about this case:
def f(): ... try: ... raise Exception() ... finally: ... return "What exception?" ... f() 'What exception?'
The new wording doesn't accurately reflect that.
I gave my interpretation of the footnote at: http://bugs.python.org/issue11669#msg139092 . Does this clarify it? Cheers, -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi