[New-bugs-announce] [issue36666] threading.Thread should have way to catch an exception thrown within

[Joel Croteau]

New submission from Joel Croteau <jcroteau at liveramp.com>:

This has been commented on numerous times by others (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2829329/catch-a-threads-exception-in-the-caller-thread-in-python, http://benno.id.au/blog/2012/10/06/python-thread-exceptions, to name a few), but there is no in-built mechanism in threading to catch an unhandled exception thrown by a thread. The default behavior of dumping to stderr is completely useless for error handling in many scenarios. Solutions do exist, but I have yet to see one that is not exceptionally complicated. It seems like checking for exceptions should be a very basic part of any threading library. The simplest solution would be to just have the Thread store any unhandled exceptions and have them raised by Thread.join(). There could also be additional methods to check if exceptions were raised.

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 340520
nosy: Joel Croteau
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: threading.Thread should have way to catch an exception thrown within
versions: Python 3.7

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