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

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Wed Aug 16 02:23:42 CEST 2006


On 8/11/06, Jason Orendorff <jason.orendorff at gmail.com> wrote:

On 8/11/06, tomer filiba <tomerfiliba at gmail.com> wrote: > why is thread.raiseexc(id, excobj) a bad API?

It breaks seemingly innocent code in subtle ways. Worse, the breakage will always be a race condition, so it'll be especially hard to reproduce and debug.

So is KeyboardInterrupt. But at least that can't be raised in threads.

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