[Python-Dev] Re: Bug [ 959379 ] Implicit close() should check for errors (original) (raw)

Tim Peters tim.peters at gmail.com
Tue Oct 26 21:35:38 CEST 2004

[Peter Astrand] ...

Is it really possible to raise an exception in response to something triggered by the GC?

It's possible but wholly useless. If you try, gc will detect that an exception was raised, and kill the Python process ungracefully, via

Py_FatalError("unexpected exception during garbage collection");

You don't want to do that .

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