[Python-ideas] Yield-From: Finalization guarantees

[Guido van Rossum]

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> Nick Coghlan wrote:
>
>> Well, in theory people are meant to be writing "except Exception:"
>> rather than using a bare except or catching BaseException - that's a big
>> part of the reason SystemExit, KeyboardInterrupt and GeneratorExit
>> *aren't* Exception subclasses.
>
> Yes, it probably isn't something people will do very
> often. But as long as GeneratorExit is documented as
> an official part of the language, we need to explain
> how we're dealing with it.
>
> BTW, how official *is* it meant to be? There seems to
> be very little said about it in either the Language or
> Library Reference.

That's one of our many doc bugs. (Maybe someone at the PyCon sprints
can fix these?)

PEP 342 defines GeneratorExit, inheriting from Exception. However a
later change to the code base made it inherit from BaseException.

> The Library Ref says it's the "exception raised when a
> generator's close() method is called". The Language Ref
> says that the close() method "allows finally clauses to
> run", but doesn't say how that is accomplished.
>
> And I can't find throw() mentioned anywhere!

Also defined in PEP 342.

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