[Python-Dev] GeneratorExit inheriting from Exception

[Barry Warsaw]

On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 08:18 -0800, Aahz wrote:

> -1 -- I occasionally use exceptions as a multi-loop break.  That's a
> perfectly valid Python practice, those exceptions should inherit from
> Exception, and there should not be any warnings raised.

Exactly!  But they're not errors, so "except Exception" should catch
them but "except Error" <wink> should not.  This does speak to a generic
ControlFlow (but not ControlFlowError) base class.

-Barry

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