Quoting Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org>:
At 08:21 PM 9/30/04 +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote:
However, another possibility occurred to me:
try: # Do stuff except sys.special_exceptions: raise except: # Deal with all the mundane stuff
+0, except that I'd rather see it put in the exceptions module and given a name in builtins.
Hmm, I forgot about the existence of the exceptions module. I agree that makes a more sensible location than sys. As for it being a builtin, I have no objections to that. I'll come up with two patches, though. One to create the tuple in exceptions, and one to give it a name in builtins (since the latter would presumably be more controversial, like any new builtin). My current list of exceptions for inclusion is KeyboardInterrupt, MemoryError, SystemExit & StopIteration. The inclusion of StopIteration is what makes me prefer 'special_exceptions' as the name of the tuple, rather than 'critical_exceptions'. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan Brisbane, Australia