[Python-Dev] Re: Bug [ 959379 ] Implicit close() should check for errors

[Tim Peters]

[Peter Astrand]
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> Is it really possible to raise an exception in response to something
> triggered by the GC?

It's possible but wholly useless.  If you try, gc will detect that an
exception was raised, and kill the Python process ungracefully, via

	Py_FatalError("unexpected exception during garbage collection");

You don't want to do that <wink>.