[Python-3000] threading, part 2 (original) (raw)

Josiah Carlson jcarlson at uci.edu
Mon Aug 14 21:15:18 CEST 2006

"Guido van Rossum" <guido at python.org> wrote:

On 8/11/06, tomer filiba <tomerfiliba at gmail.com> wrote: > i mailed this to several people separately, but then i thought it could > benefit the entire group: > > http://sebulba.wikispaces.com/recipe+thread2 > > it's an implementation of the proposed " thread.raiseexc", through an extension > to the threading.Thread class. you can test it for yourself; if it proves useful, > it should be exposed as thread.raiseexc in the stdlib (instead of the ctypes > hack)... and of course it should be reflected in threading.Thread as welll. Cool. Question: what's the problem with raising exception instances? Especially in the light of my proposal to use raise SomeException(42) in preference over (and perhaps exclusively instead of)

The problem is that it is not implemented in the underlying CPython API PyThreadState_SetAsyncExc function.

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