"Fredrik Lundh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > PEP 348 addresses this by moving special exceptions out of the > Exception hierarchy: > > http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0348.html
I see that suggestion was rejected (it needed changing the semantics of "except:"). Also, PEP 348 was rejected and is a huge, complex reorganization of the whole exception system. This is cited: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-August/055423.html but it talks about distinguishing terminating from non-terminating exceptions, whatever that means. (Won't any uncaught exception like ValueError terminate the program)? I realize now that exceptions arising from signals are also asynchronous (http://docs.python.org/lib/module-signal.html). So that's another place where we'd see user-defined asynchronous exceptions: signal handlers should raise them instead of raising ordinary exceptions. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
