Brett Cannon wrote:
Notice that I've classified KeyboardInterrupt as user-initiated control flow and put it under ControlFlowException above. This means that everything under CriticalError and Error actually ends with the word 'Error'.
I don't know if I like this change in inheritance. While we do tend to use KeyboardInterrupt as a way to kill a program, is that really control flow, or a critical exception that the program needs to stop because an serious event occurred?
I prefer the latter explanation.
You're probably right. How does the following reasoning sound: SystemExit, GeneratorExit and StopIteration are all deliberately triggered by certain well-defined elements of normal application code. That is, only certain operations will ever result in a ControlFlowException being raised. KeyboardInterrupt is a better fit with MemoryError and SystemError - something that occurs unexpectedly, at an arbitary point during program execution. That is, a CriticalError may be raised when attempting to execute almost any operation. Regards, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia --------------------------------------------------------------- http://boredomandlaziness.blogspot.com