Raymond Hettinger added the comment: Several areas for attention: * Changes to the test suite probably should not be made The user doesn't benefit in any way and you risk unintentionally breaking the test suite in a way that isn't obvious (we have no tests for the tests themselves so changing tests is like refactoring without a safety net). * Some of the exception handling in IDLE needs to catch all exceptions (i.e. SystemExit and KeyboardInterrupt are supposed to display tracebacks and not terminate IDLE itself). * Changing the exceptions in threading.py is worrisome. * The Pdb debugger may have legitimate reasons to catch all exceptions (like IDLE, we want don't want to terminate the debugger itself).
In other words, many of the proposed changes should not be made. For the rest, be careful to not change semantics unintentionally and consider adding tests if you think there is a real bug. In cases where there is doubt about the right thing to do, consider assigning the original author or maintainer of the code. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue21259> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
