On 9/17/2011 7:19 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 8:27 AM, Chris Rebert<c...@rebertia.com> wrote:
It's possible that the reason is analogous to why Java has deprecated
its equivalent, Thread.stop():
http://download.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/guide/misc/threadPrimitiveDeprecation.html
Interesting. The main argument against having a way to raise an
arbitrary exception in a different thread is that it gets around
Java's requirement to declare all exceptions that a routine might
throw - a requirement that Python doesn't have.
I saw the main argument as being that stopping a thread at an arbitrary
point can have an arbitrary, unpredictable effect on all other threads.
And more so that shutting down an independent process.
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