[Python-Dev] pickle/cPickle raises SystemError

Neil Schemenauer nas@python.ca
Wed, 14 Nov 2001 15:10:26 -0800


Barry A. Warsaw wrote:
> Did anybody else know that pickle and cPickle can raise a SystemError?

Yow!  Without even reading the exceptions documentation, SystemError
seems grossly wrong to me.

I'm +1 on fixing it.  It was undocumented and the exception is called
"SystemError".  People who write code that depends on catching
SystemError get no sympathy from me when their code breaks.

  Neil