On 1/22/07, Michael Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Bug #1579370 reports a crash when accessing the thread state of > > a terminated thread, when releasing a generator object. > > > > In analysing the problem, I found that f_tstate doesn't have much > > utility: it is used in very few places, and in these places, it > > might be as good or better to use the *current* thread state > > (rather than the frame's thread state); in some (most?) of these > > places, the current thread should be identical to the frame's > > thread, anyway. > > > > So I would like to propose that the f_tstate member is removed > > from the frame object. > > > > For Python 2.5, for compatibility, it probably has to remain > > where it is, and only PyTraceBack_Here should stop using it. > > As a consequence, a generator .send() makes exceptions > > occur in the current thread, not in the thread where the > > generator was created. > > > > What do you think? > > Without having read the code in detail, I think what you say makes a > great deal of sense. >
Ditto from me. -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
