[Python-Dev] Exceptions in LOAD_GLOBAL and LOAD_NAME (original) (raw)

Mark Shannon mark at hotpy.org
Thu Feb 23 11:12:13 CET 2012


The code below causes different behaviour for LOAD_GLOBAL and LOAD_NAME. Which is correct? Should exceptions raised in the equality test be converted to a NameError or just propogated?

Cheers, Mark.


import sys

class S(str): pass

def eq_except(self, other): if isinstance(other, str): raise TypeError("Cannot compare S and str")

globals()[S("a")] = 0

S.eq = eq_except

def f(): print(a)

try: f() except: print(sys.exc_info()[1])

try: print(a) except: print(sys.exc_info()[1])

Output:

TypeError('Cannot compare S and str',) NameError("name 'a' is not defined",)



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