[Python-Dev] Revert #12085 fix for del attribute error message (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Mon Sep 23 10:51:04 CEST 2013

On 23 September 2013 18:45, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

Le Mon, 23 Sep 2013 18:17:51 +1000, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> a écrit :

Here's what I suggest changing that error to: >>> del x Unraisable exception suppressed when calling <bound method C._del__ _of <_main_.C object at 0x7f98b8b61538>> Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 3, in del RuntimeError: Going away now Why not simply "Exception automatically caught in [...]" ?

It only answers the "what" (i.e. the exception was automatically caught), without addressing the "why" (i.e. because there wasn't anything else useful the interpreter could do with it)

"Suppressed" also says more than "caught" does, since "caught and reraised the exception" makes sense, while "suppressed and reraised the exception" contradicts itself.

Cheers, Nick.

-- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia

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