> It is currently a general convention in asyncio to only catch Exception, not > BaseException. I consider this a flaw and we should fix it, but it's > unfortunately not so easy -- the tests will fail if you replace all > occurrences of Exception with BaseException, and it is not always clear > what's the right thing to do. E.g. catching KeyboardInterrupt may actually > make it harder to stop a runaway asyncio app.
Yes. Catching BaseExceptions or KeyboardInterrupts in start_tls() would be pointless. Currently asyncio's internal state isn't properly hardened to survive a BaseException in all other places it can occur. Fixing that is one of my goals for 3.8. Yury _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
