[Python-Dev] disappearing exceptions

Benjamin Peterson musiccomposition at gmail.com
Wed May 21 01:25:56 CEST 2008


On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 5:38 PM, Christian Heimes <lists at cheimes.de> wrote:
> Thankfully this issue was fixed in Python 2.6 and 3.0. In newer versions
> of Python hasattr() only swallows exception based on the Exception class
> but not BaseExceptions. We should make sure all code in the core behaves
> the same way. Exceptions based on BaseException must *never* be
> swallowed. The behavior may even be worse a macro and it should be
> documented in large, friendly and red letters in the C API docs. *wink*

Speaking of the C-API, I was thinking of introducing a new function
called PyObject_SafeHasAttr that functions just like PyObject_HasAttr
except it can fail.
>
> Christian
>



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