[Python-Dev] exit API? (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sat Mar 4 10:46:56 CET 2006

Guido van Rossum wrote:

A few days ago there were rumbling noises that requiring exit to re-raise the exception (as I amended PEP 343 at the time) could lead to easily-missed bugs in exit handlers.

After thinking it over I think I agree and I think I'd like to change the API so that the exception is only ignored if exit returns a "true" value. The easiest implementation is probably to just let the WITHCLEANUP opcode do everything. This becomes a rather heavy opcode then but the alternative is to generate very hairy code (like the original patch did, full of ROT 4 choruses). Any objections? I probably won't get to this until Monday.

Sounds good to me - I believe the majority of explicit exit handlers will be of a try/finally nature rather than try/except, and that situations where the exception is going to be suppressed are better handled using @contextmanager.

The solution you propose means that exit methods can suppress exceptions if they want to, but their default behaviour will still do the right thing.

Cheers, Nick.

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