"Jim Jewett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> It wasn't my idea to stop ignoring exceptions in dict lookups; I would >> gladly have put this off until Py3k, where the main problem >> (str-unicode __eq__ raising UnicodeError) will go away. > >> But since people are adamant that they want this in sooner, > > Is this true for dictionaries specifically? > > Would there really be strong objections to continuing to swallow > any Exception (not BaseException) raised by __eq__ ?
Armin's reason for changing dictionaries in this way was that enormous debugging pain was caused by dicts swallowing exceptions raised by __eq__ methods. Having the __eq__ methods swallow the exceptions by themselves would make the situation *worse*, not better. Cheers, mwh -- * vegai wears his reading bra. <vegai> umm, I mean glasses -- from Twisted.Quotes _______________________________________________ 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
