Hrvoje Niksic wrote: > Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> writes: > >>> Note that StopIteration is an internal detail of no relevance whatsoever >>> to the caller. Expose this is unnecessary at best and confusing at >>> worst. >> >> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2010-October/1258606.html >> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2010-October/1259024.html > > Both of these involve suppressing the chaining at the wrong place, > namely in the outer handler or, worse yet, in the exception display > mechanism. Steven, on the other hand, wants his *inner* handler to > express that the original exception was an implementation detail, a > business exception such as StopIteration, that is completely irrelevant > to the actual exception being raised. The outer handler is the wrong > place to suppress the chaining because it has no way of distinguishing > Steven's case from a genuine case of a new exception unexpectedly > occurring during handling of the original exception.
To quote the Rolling Stones: You can't always get what you want. After rereading the original post I still don't get why the workarounds provided in those links aren't worth considering. Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
