PEP: XXX
Title: Interpreter support for concurrent programming
Version: $Revision$
Last-Modified: $Date$
Author: Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us>
Status: Draft
Type: Standards Track
Content-Type: text/x-rst
Created: 26-Jan-2012
Python-Version: 3.3
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Abstract
========
One of the open issues from PEP 3134 is suppressing context: currently
there is no way to do it. This PEP proposes one.
Motivation
==========
There are two basic ways to generate exceptions: 1) Python does it
(buggy code, missing resources, ending loops, etc.); and, 2) manually
(with a raise statement).
When writing libraries, or even just custom classes, it can become
necessary to raise exceptions; moreover it can be useful, even
necessary, to change from one exception to another. To take an example
from my dbf module:
try:
value = int(value)
except Exception:
raise DbfError(...)
Whatever the original exception was (ValueError, TypeError, or something
else) is irrelevant. The exception from this point on is a DbfError,
and the original exception is of no value. However, if this exception
is printed, we would currently see both.
Alternatives
============
Several possibilities have been put forth:
- raise as NewException()
Reuses the 'as' keyword; can be confusing since we are not really
reraising the originating exception
- raise NewException() from None
Follows existing syntax of explicitly declaring the originating
exception
- exc = NewException(); exc.__context__ = None; raise exc
Very verbose way of the previous method
- raise NewException.no_context(...)
Make context suppression a class method.
All of the above options will require changes to the core.
Proposal
========
I proprose going with the second option:
raise NewException from None
It has the advantage of using the existing pattern of explicitly setting
the cause:
raise KeyError() from NameError()
but because the 'cause' is None the previous context is discarded.
There is a patch to this effect attached to Issue6210
(http://bugs.python.org/issue6210).
Copyright
=========
This document has been placed in the public domain.
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