[Python-3000] threading, part 2

[Guido van Rossum]

On 8/14/06, Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:
> 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

Hopefully we can fix this in 2.6 or 3.0.

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