[Python-3000] threading, part 2

[Georg Brandl]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> On 8/11/06, tomer filiba <tomerfiliba at gmail.com> wrote:
>> i mailed this to several people separately, but then i thought it could
>> benefit the entire group:
>>
>> http://sebulba.wikispaces.com/recipe+thread2
>>
>> it's an implementation of the proposed " thread.raise_exc", through an extension
>> to the threading.Thread class. you can test it for yourself; if it proves useful,
>> it should be exposed as thread.raise_exc in the stdlib (instead of the ctypes
>> hack)... and of course it should be reflected in threading.Thread as welll.
> 
> Cool. Question: what's the problem with raising exception instances?
> Especially in the light of my proposal to use
> 
>   raise SomeException(42)
> 
> in preference over (and perhaps exclusively instead of)
> 
>   raise SomeException, 42
> 
> in Py3k. The latter IMO is a relic from the days of string exceptions
> which are as numbered as they come. :-)

I think this is the answer:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-August/068165.html

Georg