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Mon Apr 3 17:41:43 CEST 2006 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-April/063339.html

On 4/2/06, Delaney, Timothy (Tim) <tdelaney at avaya.com> wrote:
> Given:
>
> @contextmanager
> def gen():
>     print '__enter__'
>     yield
>     print '__exit__'
>
> with gen():
>     raise StopIteration('body')
>
> I would expect to get the StopIteration exception raised. Instead it's
> suppressed by the @contextmanager decorator.

Right. I'm not sure how to fix this (but I think Phillip probably can).

> I think we should only suppress the exception if it's *not* the
> exception passed into gen.throw() i.e. it's raised by the generator.
> Does this sound like the correct behaviour? I've attached tests and a
> fix implementing this to the bug report.

Cool.

> I can't confirm right now (at work, need to install 2.5) but I'm also
> wondering what will happen if KeyboardInterrupt or SystemExit is raised
> from inside the generator when it's being closed via __exit__. I suspect
> a RuntimeError will be raised, whereas I think these should pass
> through.

I see no reason for this with the current code. Perhaps a previous
version of contextlib.py had this problem?

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[Python-Dev] SF #1462485 - StopIteration raised in body of 'with' statement suppressed