[Python-Dev] Re: Another test_compiler mystery
Greg Ewing
greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Aug 11 03:46:59 CEST 2004
> AAAARGHGH! lookdict "isn't allowed" to raise
> exceptions, so it does a PyErr_Clear(), goes on to futilely chase the
> entire dict looking for another match on the hash code, and we've
> effectively turned a MemoryError into a KeyError.
This suggests to me that the very concept of a function
that's not allowed to return errors is dubious, since
even just calling another function could provoke a
MemoryError.
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