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Re: [patch] PR python/11407
>>>>> "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.
Tom