Greg Ewing wrote: > The thing to consider, I think, is whether it makes sense in > a large proportion of use cases to ignore the fact that the > cancel failed and carry on regardless. If not, then raising an > exception makes it much harder to accidentally ignore the > situation.
Cancelling operations is generally a best effort activity - having to wrap it an exception handler would be annoying. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia --------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ 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
