[Python-Dev] Breaking bug #411881 into manageable pieces (original) (raw)

Tim Peters tim.one@comcast.net
Wed, 20 Mar 2002 14:30:00 -0500

[martin@v.loewis.de]

One observation in the bug report is that at least KeyboardInterrupt needs to get a chance to get through, making bare except clauses evil under almost any circumstance.

Good point. I'll change doctest, in the specific way Guido suggested.

[Guido]

That would explain why sometimes I have to hit ^C twice to kill the test suite.

Partly, but a minor effect: there aren't enough doctest'ed pieces in the test suite to account for much of that. It's definitely the cause if you just run test_generators.py in a loop . Recall one of Skip's original categories:

* Not worth fixing, because the except: occurs in situations that
  would not affect application code (such as in module tests).
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