At 03:29 PM 4/5/2006, Delaney, Timothy (Tim) wrote: >Anthony Baxter wrote: > > > On behalf of the Python development team and the Python > > community, I'm happy to announce the first alpha release > > of Python 2.5. > >I noticed in PEP 356 Open Issues "StopIteration should propagate from >context managers" that there's a still a question (from Jim Jewett) >about whether the fix is correct. > >We'll need to get confirmation from PJE, but I'm pretty sure this can be >removed from open issues - returning False from __exit__ will result in >the original exception being re-raised.
It is correct, and for the reason you describe. __exit__ *must* return True or False unless the generator raises a new, non-StopIteration exception. All other exceptions must be swallowed in __exit__. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
