On 9/25/2013 5:17 PM, MRAB wrote:
On 26/09/2013 00:05, Cameron Simpson wrote:
[ I've replied to two messages here: Georg's and Glenn's (supporting
MRAB's).
- Cameron
]
On 25Sep2013 08:22, Georg Brandl <g.bra...@gmx.net> wrote:
| Am 24.09.2013 00:11, schrieb Greg Ewing:
| > How about something like "Uncaught exception in __del__
| > method ignored"? It explains fairly clearly what has
| > happened, and also indicates what do do about it --
| > catch it in the __del__ method.
|
| "Exception in __del__ caught and not propagated:"
| Georg
On 24Sep2013 09:33, Glenn Linderman <v+pyt...@g.nevcal.com> wrote:
| [MRAB]:
| >> Why not just say something like "Cannot propagate exception...";
it's
| >> simpler than "Unpropagatable exception...". [...]
|
| First one I've heard that accurately and unambiguously and briefly
| describes the issue.
| +1
I'm strongly in favour of Georg's one ("Exception in __del__ caught
and not propagated").
Why?
It says simply and clearly what has happened.
It denotes the relevant context (__del__) in which it happened.
The reader can then decide to find out why that decision may have
been made.
Why not MRAB's? ("Cannot propagate exception...")
While better than "Unpropagatable exception" and "unraisable" and
"unreraisable", it has the same flaw that I think underlies Antoine's
concerns: it suggests the reason there's an error printed instead
of further propagation is a _property of the exception_.
It doesn't say it outright, but as an outsider that is definitely
what I would at first infer.
So: a small +0.1 for "Cannot propagate exception..."
And: a big +2 for "Exception in __del__ caught and not propagated:".
Well, my suggestion was more about eliminating the adjective+noun
form; it seemed it just wasn't
possible to cram the desired meaning into a single word, so it was
better not to try!
Georg hadn't suggested his yet when I approved MRAB's, but your
reasoning is sound, Cameron, unless there is some reason that the
message can't or shouldn't be as long as what Georg suggested.
In between in length and clarity might be:
__del__ cannot propagate exception ....
All of these are less confusing that the adj+noun form, that MRAB was
the first to get away from.
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