[ZODB-Dev] RE: [Zope-Annce] ZODB 3.2.4 release candidate 1released

Paul Winkler pw_lists at slinkp.com
Mon Sep 13 22:39:33 EDT 2004


On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 08:34:53PM -0400, Tim Peters wrote:
> POSKeyError should be impossible.  Alas, "should be" != "is" across the time
> I've been fighting this.  Think of "<wink>" as suicide prevention in this
> context.  I never realized POSKeyError derived from KeyError, and it doesn't
> seem sane that it does.

Indeed, that's freaking horrible.
Is there any known code that relies on "except KeyError:" catching
POSKeyError?

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