Some C-API functions clear the error indicator?

[Austin Bingham]

Maybe I'm not following what you're saying. In my case, I already know
that an exception has been thrown. In the course of processing that
exception, I call another function which, for whatever reason and even
when it succeeds, clears the exception indicators. How can I address
this issue by checking function calls for failure?

Austin

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Gabriel Genellina
<gagsl-py2 at yahoo.com.ar> wrote:
> En Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:37:09 -0300, Austin Bingham
> <austin.bingham at gmail.com> escribió:
>
>> I've noticed that several (many?) python functions seem to clear the
>> error/exception indicators when they're called from a C/C++ program.
>> For example, both PyImport_ImportModule and traceback.extract_tb()
>> (called via the function call methods) do this: if error indicators
>> are set prior to their call (as indicated by PyErr_Fetch, and
>> including a call to PyErr_Restore), I see that they are unset (using
>> the same method) after the call. This happens even when the functions
>> succeed.
>
> It's simple: you have to check *every* function call for failure. Many
> functions return new object references and you have to properly decrement
> them in case of failure, so in most cases this means that you have to check
> each and every call.
>
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