On 1/23/07, Giovanni Bajo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 22/01/2007 23.45, Collin Winter wrote: > > > target, thus eliminating the reference cycle. The source-to-source > > translation, as suggested by Phillip J. Eby [#except-translation]_ is > > :: > > > > try: > > ... > > except E as N: > > ... > > ... > > > > is translated to :: > > > > try: > > ... > > except E as N: > > ... > > N = None > > del N > > ... > > > > The mail you link (which matched my recollection of the thread) has an > additional try/finally suite in the except block translation: > > except ExcType, e: > try: > # body > finally: > e = None > del e > > which is missing in the PEP. I think you should probably explain why the > try/finally is not needed (if it really is not).
The try/finally is indeed needed; I just screwed up when copying it out for the PEP : ) > Also, the second code snippet should probably use the "except E, N" form (no > "as") to make more clear that you're speaking of the Python 2.x equivalent of > the 3.x form. Thanks! I've changed the "as" to "," and included a note that the second code sample is Python 2. Collin WInter _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
