On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 6:43 AM, Christian Theune <c...@gocept.com> wrote: > On 05/14/2010 08:43 PM, Jim Fulton wrote: >> The file storage iterator was implemented before Python had iterators. >> (Actually, Python previously had an iterator based on a corner >> of the sequence protocol, which FileStorage used.) >> >> There's a test for storage iterators that verifies that they raise >> a special exception that extends StopIteration and IndexError. >> This makes storage iterators a bit harder to implement than >> necessary. >> >> Does anyone know of a reason why we should have to raise >> a special error that raises IndexErrors? > > My first thought was backwards compatibility to something and the > docstring of the StorageStopIteration says so but doesn't tall for what. > > Sounds like support for old clients but I can't say for which use case.
OK, I'm going to try getting rid of StorageStopIteration. If getting rid of it breaks anything, we may call the removal a bug and put it back. :) Jim -- Jim Fulton _______________________________________________ For more information about ZODB, see the ZODB Wiki: http://www.zope.org/Wikis/ZODB/ ZODB-Dev mailing list - ZODB-Dev@zope.org https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zodb-dev
