Message152842
Could we overcome these issues by some kind of exception inheritance?
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Meador Inge <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:
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> Meador Inge <meadori@gmail.com> added the comment:
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> That is a good question. While it is true that errors other than 'PyExc_OverflowError', will be mapped onto a 'TypeError' I don't think that is a bad thing. Any errors that come out of 'PyFloat_AsDouble' should be handled on a case-by-case basis and not blindly passed back out the call chain. Otherwise, we may end up passing back errors (which are who knows what) that make sense for a caller of 'PyFloat_AsDouble', but not for callers of 'g_set'.
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> Also, the interface would become variable, meaning that whenever 'PyFloat_AsDouble' introduces new exceptions, then this code would too, which would lead to a somewhat unpredictable interface for callers of 'g_set'.
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2012-02-08 09:27:53 | kumma | set | recipients:
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2012-02-08 09:27:53 | kumma | link | issue9041 messages |
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