On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Jae-Joon Lee <lee.j.j...@gmail.com> wrote: > Michael, > > It seems that the gtk backend in the current svn silently ignores ALL > exceptions raised during the drawing. > > http://matplotlib.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/matplotlib/trunk/matplotlib/lib/matplotlib/backends/backend_gtk.py?r1=6696&r2=6793 > > Is this necessary? I don't think we want to do this.
No, it is a bug. Catching blanket exceptions and ignoring them is never OK -- we need to add a section to the coding guide to this effect. If absolutely necessary, one can catch blanket exceptions and log them, eg using cbook.exception_to_str, but they must be reported. Michael has already fixed this (perhaps it was some detritus left in from a debugging session?) and I'll make a note in the developer docs coding guide. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
