On 8/4/05, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In general the PEP looks really good now! >
Glad you like it. > On 8/4/05, Willem Broekema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 8/4/05, Brett Cannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > OK, once the cron job comes around and is run, > > > http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0348.html will not be a 404 but be the > > > latest version of the PEP. > > > > Currently, when the "recursion limit" is reached, a RuntimeError is > > raised. RuntimeError is in the PEP renamed to UserError. UserError is > > in the new hierarchy located below StandardError, below Exception. > > > > I think that in the new hierarchy this error should be in the same > > "critical" category as MemoryError. (MemoryError includes general > > stack overflow.) > > No. Usually, a recursion error is a simple bug in the code, no > different from a TypeError or NameError etc. > > This does contradict my earlier claim that Python itself doesn't use > RuntimeError; I think I'd be happier if it remained RuntimeError. (I > think there are a few more uses of it inside Python itself; I don't > think it's worth inventing new exceptions for all these.) > OK, I will not propose renaming RuntimeError. -Brett _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
