Tim Peters wrote: > Changing the user-visible API is a hard egg to > swallow, and it's unfortunate that the Python code used a dict to hold > "flags" to begin with. The dict doesn't just record whether an > exception has occurred, it also counts how many times the exception > occurred. It's possible that someone, somewhere, has latched on to > that as "a feature".
Especially since it was a documented one: >>> import decimal >>> help(decimal.Context) Help on class Context in module decimal: class Context(__builtin__.object) | Contains the context for a Decimal instance. [...] | flags - When an exception is caused, flags[exception] is incremented. | (Whether or not the trap_enabler is set) | Should be reset by user of Decimal instance. [...] -- Giovanni Bajo _______________________________________________ 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
