[Python-Dev] frozen exceptions.py (was: win32 specific exception in the core?)

[Fredrik Lundh]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > > Why C? Implement it in Python and freeze the sucker.
> >=20
> > size and performance.  exception classes are installed
> > during initialization of the python interpreter, and they
> > all need to be made available for C code anyway.
> >=20
> > (in fact, the new code isn't that much larger than the
> > code needed to copy stuff from exceptions.py)
>=20
> Actually, in this case, I'd vote for C too.  My reason is stability.
> The process to freeze exceptions.py into the core will always be more
> fragile than the process to compile C code.

incomplete proof-of-concept implementation available
here.  see webpage and FIXME's in the code for more
info:

http://w1.132.telia.com/~u13208596/exceptions.htm

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