Custom C Exception Subclasses

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Wed, 24 Dec 2008 15:48:34 -0200, Gabriel Genellina  
<gagsl-py2 at yahoo.com.ar> escribió:

> En Wed, 24 Dec 2008 15:00:36 -0200, Ivan Illarionov  
> <ivan.illarionov at gmail.com> escribió:
>
>> When you raise an exception in C++ you can set it to ANY Python object
>> via PyErr_SetObject and that object could store pointers to C++
>> classes.
>
> Remember that exceptions should inherit from BaseException; although  
> this rule isn't enforced in Python 2.6, 3.0 doesn't allow that.
> It isn't explicitely written in the docs, but I think that  
> PyErr_SetObject won't allow you to pass an object which is not an  
> instance of its first argument.

Correction: you're right, it is OK to pass any other object as the second  
parameter to PyErr_SetObject; it will be used as the argument to the  
exception constructor.

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Gabriel Genellina