[Python-Dev] PEP 342 support for string exceptions in throw()
Phillip J. Eby
pje at telecommunity.com
Fri Mar 24 23:56:39 CET 2006
At 02:36 PM 3/24/2006 -0800, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>I think it's overkill to warn for any string exceptions thrown this
>way. Since the only use case for using throw() is to pass an exception
>you just caught, I don't see that putting the warning is useful --
>it's just more code that in practice is never triggered.
My proposal was that throw() should only succeed or fail, never warn.
If you throw() a string exception with a traceback, it Just Works.
If you throw() a string exception without a traceback, you get an immediate
TypeError, just like in the 2.5 trunk now.
Is that acceptable? i.e., was that what you were "-0"-ing?
The only change is that throw() would now *accept* string exceptions
without warning or error, if and only if you supply a traceback. That is,
if you are effectively re-raising an existing exception.
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