On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 7:49 AM, Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote:
> On 05/31/2018 07:36 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > > The exception machinery deliberately attempts to avoid instantiating >> exception objects whenever it can, but that gets >> significantly more difficult if we always need to create the instance >> before we can decide whether or not the raised >> exception matches the given exception handler criteria. >> > > Why is this? Doesn't the exception have to be instantiated at some point, > even if just to print to stderr? > Not if it gets caught and ignored. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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