[Python-Dev] Revert #12085 fix for __del__ attribute error message

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Mon, 23 Sep 2013 18:51:04 +1000
Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 23 September 2013 18:45, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> > Le Mon, 23 Sep 2013 18:17:51 +1000,
> > Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> a écrit :
> >>
> >> Here's what I suggest changing that error to:
> >>
> >> >>> del x
> >> Unraisable exception suppressed when calling <bound method C.__del__
> >> of <__main__.C object at 0x7f98b8b61538>>
> >> Traceback (most recent call last):
> >>   File "<stdin>", line 3, in __del__
> >> RuntimeError: Going away now
> >
> > Why not simply "Exception automatically caught in <bound method
> > C.__del__> [...]" ?
> 
> It only answers the "what" (i.e. the exception was automatically
> caught), without addressing the "why" (i.e. because there wasn't
> anything else useful the interpreter could do with it)

Yes, but I agree with Greg that "unraisable" is wrong. After all, it
was raised, and it can even be caught by the programmer (inside
__del__).

Regards

Antoine.