[New-bugs-announce] [issue6294] Improve shutdown exception ignored message

[Terry J. Reedy]

New submission from Terry J. Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu>:

When (at least sometimes) exceptions occur during shutdown, warnings
like the following appear:
Exception TypeError: "'NoneType' object is not callable" in  ignored

This is apparently meant to be read as 
Exception <<TypeError: "'NoneType' object is not callable" in ...>>
[was] ignored

instead of, for instance
Exception TypeError: "'NoneType' object is not callable" in ignored

Even when parsed correctly, it is a bit mysterious (who/what ignored the
exception?) to one not in the know and has generated more than one
python-list thread.

Suggestion (from John Machin): reword to something like

Shutdown ignored this exception: TypeError: "'NoneType' object is not
callable"

This would tell people that they might need to find out more about the
shutdown process.

Would it be permissible to change this in 3.1?

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keywords: easy
messages: 89441
nosy: tjreedy
severity: normal
status: open
title: Improve shutdown exception ignored message
type: feature request
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.2

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