Hi there, I've been poking around the thread state API and error/exception handling, and there's something missing I'd like to see happening.
The only way to retrieve the current exception is via sys.excinfo or PyErr_GetExcInfo in C. However, the issue is that they don't take a PyThreadState as argument, but use _PyThreadState_GET() to retrieve the thread state. That makes it impossible to retrieve the exception information for a different thread than the one calling the function. In order to retrieve the exception from *any* PyThreadState, the caller has to use _PyErr_GetTopmostException which takes a PyThreadState as argument — though that function is private and therefore not documented or usable in an external module (in theory at least). Should we make _PyErr_GetTopmostException public, or implement something different to retrieve the top most exception from a PyThreadState? Cheers, -- Julien Danjou # Free Software hacker # https://julien.danjou.info _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/QVMFP76R35SXUIM2WPPVPV5XCVMKPDEB/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
