[Python-Dev] PEP 343 - Abstract Block Redux

[Nick Coghlan]

Nick Coghlan wrote:
> Wouldn't that mean we run the risk of suppressing a *real* SystemExit if it 
> occurs while a generator is being finalised?
> 
> Perhaps a new exception IteratorExit, which is a subclass of SystemExit. Then 
> well-behaved code wouldn't trap it accidentally, and the finalisation code wouldn't?

... inadvertently suppress a real SystemExit.

Cheers,
Nick.
Must have been distracted halfway through that sentence :)

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