[Python-Dev] Terminology for PEP 343 (original) (raw)

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Sun Jul 3 15:23:24 CEST 2005

On Sun, Jul 03, 2005, Nick Coghlan wrote:

[...] Anyway, I stuck with 'exit' for this - I prefer slightly awkard phrasing in the explanation to awkwardness in the pairing of the names. [...] exit(exctype, excvalue, exctraceback): Called as execution exits the contained suite. If the suite was exited due to an exception, the details of that exception are passed as arguments. Otherwise, all three arguments are set to None.

My take is that the primary awkwardness results from all the "ex": "execution", "exits", "exception". If we care, I guess "leave" is okay.

Nice work!

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