On May 29, 10:05 am, Joshua Landau <joshua.landau...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 29 May 2013 14:02, Dave Angel <da...@davea.name> wrote: > > > On 05/29/2013 08:45 AM, Oscar Benjamin wrote: > > Joshua: Avoid doing anything complex inside an exception handler. > > Unfortunately, Ranger (the file manager in question) wraps a lot of stuff > in one big exception handler. Hence there isn't much choice. The original > wasn't actually in an infinite recursion, too, but just a recursion over a > large directory. > > Is there a reason that Python 3 can't be made to work like Python 2 and > PyPy, and -if not- should it? The catchable fail would be much nicer than > just bombing the program. > > In the meantime the algorithm should just be reworked, but it seems like a > larger step than should be needed. > > If nothing else, the exception frame is huge. I probably would have > > > spotted it except for the indentation problem triggered by html. The top > > level code following your function didn't have any loops, so it wasn't a > > problem. > > > Can anyone help Joshua put his gmail into text mode? > > I've found a new option. As a test, here's a simplified version without the > property: > > def loop(): > try: > (lambda: None)() > except: > pass > > loop() > > try: > loop() > except RuntimeError: > pass > > which is pretty much Oscar Benjamin's, but less stupid.
If nobody else has, I would recommend you submit a bug at bugs.python.org. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list