[Python-Dev] Python signal processing question (original) (raw)

Stephen J. Turnbull stephen at xemacs.org
Thu Jul 22 10:50:00 CEST 2010

Greg Ewing writes:

Glyph Lefkowitz wrote:

The selection of RuntimeError in this particular case seems somewhat random and ad-hoc,

Well, I guess we'd have to catch the person who wrote the code and ask.

Maybe this is something that could be considered in the exception hierarchy revamp proposal that was posted recently?

I think that's Antoine's PEP 3151. Interestingly, he doesn't mention EINVAL at all.