Jeroen Demeyer wrote:
> On 2019-07-02 23:29, Brett Cannon wrote:
> > But two, this would be a semantic shift of what
> > classes directly inherit from BaseException.
> > It depends how you interpret that. I always interpreted classes
> inheriting directly from BaseException as exceptions that you
On 2019-07-02 23:29, Brett Cannon wrote:
But two, this would be a semantic shift of what classes directly inherit from
`BaseException`.
It depends how you interpret that. I always interpreted classes
inheriting directly from BaseException as exceptions that you almost
never want to catch in
There's two issues with this idea.
One, backwards-compatibility, especially since the only good way to handle this
would be to modify the exception-handling code to recognize this specific case
during deprecation.
But two, this would be a semantic shift of what classes directly inherit from
On 01.07.2019 12:25, Jeroen Demeyer wrote:
A SystemError is typically raised from C to indicate serious bugs in the application which shouldn't normally be caught and handled. It's
used for example for NULL arguments where a Python object is expected. So in some sense, SystemError is the Python
