Looking at the following PEP example, I'm still not sure what he should do to handle some but not all OSError instances:
... raise ExceptionGroup( ... "eg", ... [ ... ValueError(1), ... TypeError(2), ... OSError(3), ... ExceptionGroup( ... "nested", ... [OSError(4), TypeError(5), ValueError(6)]) ... ] except *OSError seems to get him an ExceptionGroup that he still has to manually tree-walk to handle the OSErrors that he can actually handle. Once he has manually tree-walked, he has to manually re-raise the other OSErrors that he hasn't filtered out, and they become a sibling of the original ExceptionGroup, because they're (now) being raised at a different location. (Or, not *really* the original ExceptionGroup, but one that looks like it without any OSErrors.) This new sibling relationship is there to show that a failed or incomplete attempt was made at resolving the OSErrors, but no such attempt was made at the ValueErrors or TypeErrors. Alternatively, he *might* be able to just grab Exception, then use a complicated callback to subgroup only the OSErrors that he will be able to handle, and raise the complement of that. It will still add another layer of ExceptionGroup, but won't split the remainders. This seems like an awful lot of work to preserve and elaborate structural relations between different exceptions that were originally accidental. (I am assuming that the original relation was "these all happened, probably in different execution threads" and the new relations are just accidents of what got partially handled along the way, or maybe the order in which different execution threads got merged.) I can't imagine ever needing to care about the full tree structure unless I'm re-implementing asycio/trio/curio. Even if that structural information is important to my own framework, that just means I should create more intermediate tasks to handle it more quickly, before the next level of aggregation. I would much prefer an API that let me pattern-match (even just by class of the exception instances, though preferably also by attributes), process each exception (as though it were the only one) within the code block that match selects, and indicate whether that one exception should be raised further or not. -jJ _______________________________________________ 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/WTZUGBFWFXMGAFHNTTBMUYFGMQCPV5N6/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
