[Python-Dev] Proposed resolutions for open PEP 343 issues (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Tue Oct 25 16:27:49 CEST 2005

Almost there - this is the only issue I have left on my list :)

Guido van Rossum wrote:

On 10/24/05, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

However, those resolutions bring up the following issues:

5 a. What exception is raised when EXPR does not have a context method? b. What about when the returned object is missing enter or exit? I suggest raising TypeError in both cases, for symmetry with for loops. The slot check is made in C code, so I don't see any difficulty in raising TypeError instead of AttributeError if the relevant slots aren't filled. Why are you so keen on TypeError? I find AttributeError totally appropriate. I don't see symmetry with for-loops as a valuable property here. AttributeError and TypeError are often interchangeable anyway.

The reason I'm keen on TypeError is because 'abstract.c' uses it consistently when it fails to find a method to support a requested protocol.

None of the abstract object methods currently raise AttributeError, and this property is fairly visible at the Python level because the abstract API's are used to implement many of the bytecodes and various builtin functions. Both for loops and the iter function, for example, get their current exception behaviour from PyObject_GetIter and PyIter_Next.

Having had a look at mwh's patch, however, I've realised that going that way would only be possible if there were dedicated bytecodes for GET_CONTEXT, ENTER_CONTEXT and EXIT_CONTEXT (similar to the dedicated GET_ITER and FOR_ITER).

Leaving the exception as AttributeError means that level of bytecode hacking isn't necessary (mwh's patch just emits a fairly normal try/finally statement, although it still modifies the bytecode to include LOAD_EXIT_ARGS).

So, the inconsistency with other syntactic protocols still bothers me, but I can live with AttributeError if you don't want to add three new bytecodes just to support PEP 343.

Cheers, Nick.

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