On 8/14/06, Georg Brandl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Guido van Rossum wrote: > > On 8/11/06, tomer filiba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> i mailed this to several people separately, but then i thought it could > >> benefit the entire group: > >> > >> http://sebulba.wikispaces.com/recipe+thread2 > >> > >> it's an implementation of the proposed " thread.raise_exc", through an > >> extension > >> to the threading.Thread class. you can test it for yourself; if it proves > >> useful, > >> it should be exposed as thread.raise_exc in the stdlib (instead of the > >> ctypes > >> hack)... and of course it should be reflected in threading.Thread as welll. > > > > Cool. Question: what's the problem with raising exception instances? > > Especially in the light of my proposal to use > > > > raise SomeException(42) > > > > in preference over (and perhaps exclusively instead of) > > > > raise SomeException, 42 > > > > in Py3k. The latter IMO is a relic from the days of string exceptions > > which are as numbered as they come. :-) > > I think this is the answer: > > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-August/068165.html
Hopefully we can fix this in 2.6 or 3.0. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
