Jean-Paul Calderone wrote: > And the new behavior? Every raise statement copies an exception instance, > some code will create a new exception instance for each raise statement, > some code will create a single exception and re-raise it repeatedly.
Make that "most code will create a new exception instance and then make a copy of it", unless this can be optimised away somehow, and it's not necessarily obvious that the refcount == 1 trick will work (it depends on the exact details of how the references flow through the exception raising machinery). -- Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, +--------------------------------------+ University of Canterbury, | Carpe post meridiem! | Christchurch, New Zealand | (I'm not a morning person.) | [EMAIL PROTECTED] +--------------------------------------+ _______________________________________________ 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
