False exceptions?" (was Re: theme of the week: tools

[Richie Hindle]

[Stephan]
> The "false exceptions" thing is a technical limitation of detecting
> whether or not an exception is going to lead to program termination at the
> moment it is raised

[Richie]
> Assuming an exception "is going to lead to program
> termination", trapping it at the point it's raised is only one instruction
> away from trapping at the point it causes termination (via sys.excepthook)

[David]
> You're assuming that it's all Python code up the stack until the final
> exception handling.  If there's an extension module in the way, you
> lose the ability to get at the information, and if that extension
> module decides to absorb the error, then there's no longer a chance to
> catch it.

I'll get my coat.

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Richie Hindle
richie at entrian.com