> If the iterator fails to re-raise the StopIteration exception (the spec
> only says it should, not that it must) I think the return would be ignored
> but a subsquent exception would then get converted into a return value. I
> think the flag needs reset to avoid this case.
Good catch. I've fixed this in the PEP.
> Also, I wonder whether other exceptions from next() shouldn't be handled a
> bit differently. If BLOCK1 throws an exception, and this causes the
> iterator to also throw an exception then one exception will be lost. I
> think it would be better to propogate the original exception rather than
> the second exception.
I don't think so. It's similar to this case:
try:
raise Foo
except:
raise Bar
Here, Foo is also lost.
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--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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