[Python-ideas] Protecting finally clauses of interruptions

[Yury Selivanov]

On 2012-04-02, at 7:36 PM, Paul Colomiets wrote:

> It's nice for python to have finally protection built-in,
> but I don't see how it can be implemented in a generic way.

How about adding some sort of 'interruption protocol'?

Say Threads, generators, and Greenlets will have a special
method called '_interrupt'.  While it will be implemented
differently for each of them, it will work on the same
principle:

- check if the underlying code block is in one of its
'finally' statements

- if it is: set a special flag to abort when the
frame's counter of 'finally' blocks reaches 0 to
raise the ExecutionInterrupt exception

- if it is not: raise the ExecutionInterrupt exception 
right away

-
Yury