[Numpy-discussion] Release blockers for 1.4.0 ?

[Robert Kern]

On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 01:41, Anne Archibald <peridot.faceted at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/12/8 Robert Kern <robert.kern at gmail.com>:

>>  olderr = np.seterr(divide='ignore', invalid='ignore')
>>  try:
>>    result = self.f(da, db, *args, **kwargs)
>>  finally:
>>    np.seterr(**olderr)
>
> Doesn't this risk a ctrl-C after the seterr but before the try? How about:
> olderr = np.geterr()
> try:
>    np.seterr(....)
>    do_whatever()
> finally:
>    np.seterr(**olderr)

Fair point.

> (I guess this would be why context managers were invented...)

Oh yes.

-- 
Robert Kern

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enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as
though it had an underlying truth."
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