[Python-Dev] Why not using "except: (...) raise" to cleanup on error?

[Victor Stinner]

2018-06-04 18:45 GMT+02:00 Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org>:
> It is currently a general convention in asyncio to only catch Exception, not
> BaseException. I consider this a flaw and we should fix it, but it's
> unfortunately not so easy -- the tests will fail if you replace all
> occurrences of Exception with BaseException, and it is not always clear
> what's the right thing to do. E.g. catching KeyboardInterrupt may actually
> make it harder to stop a runaway asyncio app.

I recall vaguely something about loop.run_until_complete() which
didn't behave "as expected" when interrupted by CTRL+c, like the
following call to loop.run_until_complete() didn't work as expected.
But this issue has been sorted out, no?

I mean that maybe asyncio uses "except Exception:" for "historical reasons"?

Victor