Re: [patch] PR python/11407

[Phil Muldoon <pmuldoon@redhat.com>]

On 07/07/10 18:02, Phil Muldoon wrote:
> On 25/06/10 22:20, Phil Muldoon wrote:
>> On 06/25/2010 07:25 PM, Tom Tromey wrote:
>>>>>>>> "Phil" == Phil Muldoon <pmuldoon@redhat.com> writes:
>>>
>>> Phil> I'm not sure what to do in this case.  There seems to be no direct
>>> Phil> equivalent of converting an exception to error output on a stream in MI
>>> Phil> (or any cases of TRY ... exception handlers).  There are many cases of
>>> Phil> MI raising an error() though, so I thought it appropriate in our case
>>> Phil> to raise a warning() instead.  Because of the peculiarities of the MI
>>> Phil> cases I just report a warning generically and move on.  This is not
>>> Phil> totally ideal, but it does allow the error/warning preamble followed
>>> Phil> by the actual locals information.
>>>
>>> I'm not convinced a warning is the best thing.
>>>
>>> Why not catch the exception and print the text of it as the variable's
>>> value?  Something like  <error reading variable: %s>
>>> I think this will work ok with existing front ends.
>>
>> Here is a patch that does that.  
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Phil
>>
> 
> Tom >> I am curious to hear what Volodya wants.
> 
> 
> Adding Vladimir Prus to the CC list.  
> 

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