On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 10:55 PM Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz>
wrote:
> Ethan Furman wrote:
>
> > Why is this? Doesn't the exception have to be instantiated at some
> > point, even if just to print to stderr?
>
> If it gets caught by an except clause without an else clause,
> in theory there's no need to instantiate it.
>
> However, Python doesn't currently seem to take advantage of
> that:
>
> >>>
>
> class E(Exception):
> ... def __init__(self, *args):
> ... Exception.__init__(self, *args)
> ... print("E got instantiated!")
> ...
> >>> try:
> ... print("Trying")
> ... raise E
> ... except E:
> ... print("Caught an E")
> ...
> Trying
> E got instantiated!
> Caught an E
I don't think it's possible to avoid instantiating the exception at the
user level, what would sys.exc_info() do about it's second return value?
I believe the only cases where it's possible to avoid instantiation are
inside the interpreter itself, where the exception never propagates up to
user visibility.
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