[Python-ideas] Async API

[Greg Ewing]

Steve Dower wrote:
> The type of the error is irrelevant - if something_else() might raise an
> exception that is expected, it won't be passed in because the scheduler is
> suppressing exceptions inside finally blocks. Or perhaps I've misunderstood the
> point of gi_in_finally?

IIUC, it's only *asynchronous* exceptions that would be blocked --
i.e. ones thrown in from a different task, or arising from an
external event such as a timeout. An exception raised explicity
by the task's own code would be unaffected.

-- 
Greg