[Python-Dev] Need to hook Py_FatalError

[James William Pye]

On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 12:54 -0500, Jeff Epler wrote:
> On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 09:15:42AM -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > But tell me, what do you want the process to do instead of
> > terminating? Py_FatalError is used in situations where raising an
> > exception is impossible or would do more harm than good.
> 
> In an application which embeds Python, I want to show the application's
> standard error dialog, which doesn't call any Python APIs (but does do
> things like capture the call stack at the time of the error).  For this
> use, it doesn't matter that no further calls to those APIs are possible.
> 
> Jeff

+1 Here.

In my case(postgresql), it would probably be wiser to map Py_Fatal's to
Postgres' ereport(FATAL,(...)), as it does appear to do some cleaning up
on exit, and if there's a remote user, it could actually give the user
the message.

[http://python.project.postgresql.org]
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Regards, James William Pye