[Python-Dev] Accepting PEP 415 (alternative implementation strategy for PEP 409's "raise exc from None" syntax)

[Benjamin Peterson]

2012/5/14 Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com>:
> On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 12:20 AM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
>> On May 14, 2012, at 10:04 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
>>
>>>As the subject line says, as Guido's delegate, I'm accepting
>>>Benjamin's PEP 415 with the current reference implementation.
>>
>> I'm glad to see this PEP get accepted.  I have just minor quibbles :).
>>
>> Can you or Benjamin improve the title of the PEP?  It's already difficult
>> enough to keep the mappings of PEP numbers to subjects in your head, even for
>> the subset of PEPs you track.  Having a PEP title that refers to *another* PEP
>> number just makes things too confusing.  How about:
>>
>> "Suppressing exception context via BaseException attribute"  ?
>>
>> I also understand that PEP 415 is an elaboration of PEP 409, not a complete
>> replacement, however it seems wrong that PEP 409 does not even reference PEP
>> 415.
>>
>> Thus, while not a perfect solution, I suggest PEP 409 get a Superseded-By
>> header that points to 415.  415 should get a Replaces header that points to
>> 409.  Then PEP 415 should get a section describing how the bulk of 409 is
>> still valid, except for blah blah blah.  (IOW, include the still valid parts
>> of PEP 409 by reference.)
>
> Helping others follow the bouncing ball in the historical record makes
> sense to me - I'll make these tweaks this evening.

+1 indeed.


-- 
Regards,
Benjamin