Re: Exception handling

[Barry S. <ba...@ba...>]

On Oct 18, 2007, at 04:40, Tim Docker wrote:

> I've just been taking a look at pyCxx, and it's looks quite nice.
>
> I notice that in Objects.hxx, there's lot's of code snippets that  
> look like:
>
>             if (PyErr_Occurred()) throw Exception();
>
> Would it be better to call a function that interrogates the  
> exeception status, and throws an exception of the appropriate  
> derived type? That way you could catch more specifically in the C++  
> code.
>

Having re-read the code that would be better. Would you like to  
submit a patch to
do this?

>
> Also, is there a reason why Exception doesn't derive from  
> std::exception?

No reason, the code is older then std::exception and I guess it  
should be updated
so long as there is no problem introduced by doing this.

Barry