Kevin Jacobs wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Christian Tismer wrote:
>
>>>You and Kevin Jacobs can argue about the syntax.
>>
>>Proposals, in decreasing orders of delight:
>>
>>1) Implement exeptions according to the documentation.
>> Cleaning exceptions after they are handled is what
>> most users would expect, last but not least since
>> the documentation suggests it.
> This is not a practical option -- while I don't think the current behavior
> is ideal, we have a great deal of code that relies on this behavior. I'm
> sure that many other Python developers are in the same boat. If this is to
> change, we need to do a lot more work to justify it, and to give at least
> full one version of notice before enforcing it.
Why this? sys.exc_info() is well documented since
a couple of versions. I was even so dumb to code
according to it that I wasn't even aware of the
problem. (But I should have known better having
read all the code).
...
>>3) Add an extra reset_exp function to sys.
>> More lame since it requires an extra function,
>> just to patch a "feature".
>
>
> This one gets my vote (if this were a democracy). "Explicit is better than
> implicit". The new symbol in the sys namespace also makes it easy to test
> for the capability (without a version number check). Maybe it should be
> called 'clear_exc' or 'reset_exc_info' (to match the C API name).
I don't care, but to get that crappy problem off my desk.
>>4) Keep things as they are, and expect the Spanish Inquision.
>
>
> I'm even okay with the status quo and can continue to use my current hack to
> clear exception data.
I have received lots of complaints about "bad Stackless behavior",
and I would be happy if I were causing the problem, in the first
place. The problem exists since centuries, but is exploited
by the fact that people can have so many threads now.
I hate to get prosecuted for the consequences of other
people's decisions, in a way...
... but I'm far from being a language designer, for heaven's sake :-))
unseriously yours - chgris
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