STINNER Victor <victor.stin...@haypocalc.com> added the comment: Yes, I patched the C code to not clear exceptions anymore at startup: r78826 (issue #3137). But this issue is different: here the bug is in the 3rd party module (loaded by site.py), not in Python, and Donald proposes to *ignore* errors (where I did the opposite).
> This places python at the mercy of bugs in third-party software. Why do you consider this as a bug? Yes, Python allows to be extended by 3rd party softwares. And if you install bogus extensions, you break your Python setup. Ignore errors is never a good idea. How would you notice that the extension is disabled because it is bogus? I prefer explicit errors to force the user to fix its setup. Extract of the Gentoo issue: << The direct cause of your problem is that you manually created /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/zope/__init__.py file. Please remove it: rm -f /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/zope/__init__.py* >> I close this issue because I think that ignore errors is not a good idea. If you disagree, you can still comment this issue, or reopen it. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue10642> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
