[Python-Dev] Need to hook Py_FatalError

[M.Utku K.]

James William Pye <python at jwp.name> wrote in
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> On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 09:46 +0000, M.Utku K. wrote:
>> The reinit. issue: The old way of returning old callback when a new 
>> callback is set sounds OK. Or better way: there may be an array to hold
>> all the callbacks, Py_FatalError iterates and call each.
> 
> Why should reinitialization be allowed at all? Seems to me that this
> feature should be exclusively reserved for an embedding application to
> handle the fatal in an application specific way; ie ereport(FATAL,()) in
> PostgreSQL, which quickly exits after some cleanup. Why should an
> extension module be allowed to set this, or reset it?

What if more than one extension needs it ?
Curently Im doing

callback_type SetCallBack(callback_type newfunc)

This will set the callback to newfunc and return the old one. Extension 
developer may discard or call them at his own will. What do you think?