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

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Mon Sep 23 17:22:45 CEST 2013

On Mon, 23 Sep 2013 18:51:04 +1000 Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

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 > 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 C.del> [...]" ?

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)

Yes, but I agree with Greg that "unraisable" is wrong. After all, it was raised, and it can even be caught by the programmer (inside del).

Regards

Antoine.

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