[Python-Dev] unicode Exception messages in py2.7 (original) (raw)

Steven D'Aprano steve at pearwood.info
Fri Nov 15 04:08:55 CET 2013


On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 04:02:17PM -0800, Chris Barker wrote:

On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Tres Seaver <tseaver at palladion.com> wrote:

> Fixing any bug is "changing behavior"; 2.7 is not frozen for bugfixes. Thank you. > The real question is whether third-party code will break when the > now-empty error messages appear with '?' littered through them? right -- any bugfix changes behaviour

It isn't clear that this is a bug at all.

Non-ascii Unicode strings are just a special case of the more general problem of what to do if printing the exception raises. If str(exception.message) raises, suppressing the message seems like a perfectly reasonable approach to me.

-- Steven



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