[Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 2.5 (alpha 1) (original) (raw)

Phillip J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Thu Apr 6 01:01:13 CEST 2006

At 03:29 PM 4/5/2006, Delaney, Timothy (Tim) wrote:

Anthony Baxter wrote:

> On behalf of the Python development team and the Python > community, I'm happy to announce the first alpha release > of Python 2.5. I noticed in PEP 356 Open Issues "StopIteration should propagate from context managers" that there's a still a question (from Jim Jewett) about whether the fix is correct. We'll need to get confirmation from PJE, but I'm pretty sure this can be removed from open issues - returning False from exit will result in the original exception being re-raised.

It is correct, and for the reason you describe. exit must return True or False unless the generator raises a new, non-StopIteration exception. All other exceptions must be swallowed in exit.

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