[Guido] > > I believe that Stackless supports Python 2.1 or older, and we're not > > adding features. Even if Stackless supported Python 2.2, adding a new > > feature would be iffy. [Christian] > Huh? What makes you believe that? I thought quite a while ago you announced you were giving up the old stackless code. I must have misunderstood. > I'm talking of 2.3, of course. But without GC, right? Or did I misunderstand that too? I thought you told me that your customers didn't want GC enabled? But in 2.3 GC can't be disabled. So I guess I'm unclear on what you want. > I would also like to point out that the documentation > of sys.exc_info is very misleading, and I always > programmed acording to this false information: > > """ > >>> print sys.exc_info.__doc__ > exc_info() -> (type, value, traceback) > > Return information about the exception that is currently being handled. > This should be called from inside an except clause only. > >>> > """ It's pretty complex to explain the actual behavior, so I gave a recipe that's a little more restricted but is guaranteed to work. > Where I have to say that I'm in favor of doing like > the documentation claims. Too bad, that would definitely break existing code. [And later, Guido] > > Well, Christian explained that it was a problem because they have > > 1000s of threads. [Christian] > Yeah. But standard CPython can exploit the same thing, with a > handful of real threads, which happen to catch exceptions > from, say, a very deep, very memory consming chain of frames. > These are all kept alive, and from the documentation, > people don't expect this! Who reads documentation. :-) > ... > > > I don't have time to write the code, but I'll entertain a patch before > > 2.3b1. > > I was about to supply a patch, that's why I asked for > the right syntax. Do you want an extra function of which name, > or do you like a default arg to exc_info? > Both patches should not take me more than 1/2 hour, or I > should better give up on programming and become a farmer. You and Kevin Jacobs can argue about the syntax. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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