On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 6:33 PM, Antoine Pitrou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Guido van Rossum <guido <at> python.org> writes:
>> I would be okay as well with restricting bare raise syntactically to
>> appearing only inside an except block, to emphasize the change in
>> semantics that was started when we decided to make the optional
>> variable disappear at the end of the except block.
>>
>> This would render the following code illegal:
>>
>> def f():
>> try: 1/0
>> except: pass
>> raise
>
> But you may want to use bare raise in a function called from an exception
> handler, e.g.:
>
> def handle_exception():
> if user() == "Albert":
> # Albert likes his exceptions uncooked
> raise
> else:
> logging.exception("an exception occurred")
>
> def f():
> try:
> raise KeyError
> except:
> handle_exception()
I think it's perfectly fine to require that such code use
sys.exc_info() or have the exception information passed in. The latter
is more testable and more readable, in any case.
Collin
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