[Python-Dev] Dict suppressing exceptions (original) (raw)

Jim Jewett jimjjewett at gmail.com
Thu Aug 10 02:46:54 CEST 2006

It wasn't my idea to stop ignoring exceptions in dict lookups; I would gladly have put this off until Py3k, where the main problem (str-unicode eq raising UnicodeError) will go away.

But since people are adamant that they want this in sooner,

Is this true for dictionaries specifically?

Would there really be strong objections to continuing to swallow any Exception (not BaseException) raised by eq ?

Writing an eq method that doesn't handle generic objects is sloppy, but it does happen, and I would hate to wrap all dictionaries of objects.

-jJ

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