[Python-Dev] cpython: Issue #14200: Idle shell crash on printing non-BMP unicode character.

Wed Mar 14 21:52:44 CET 2012

On 14.03.2012 21:46, andrew.svetlov wrote:
> diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/rpc.py b/Lib/idlelib/rpc.py
> --- a/Lib/idlelib/rpc.py
> +++ b/Lib/idlelib/rpc.py
> @@ -196,8 +196,12 @@
> return ("ERROR", "Unsupported message type: %s" % how)
> except SystemExit:
> raise
> + except KeyboardInterrupt:
> + raise
> except socket.error:
> raise
> + except Exception as ex:
> + return ("CALLEXC", ex)
> except:
> msg = "*** Internal Error: rpc.py:SocketIO.localcall()\n\n"\
> " Object: %s \n Method: %s \n Args: %s\n"

It appears that this would be better written as
except socket.error:
 raise
except Exception:
 return ("CALLEXC", ex)
except: # BaseException, i.e. SystemExit, KeyboardInterrupt, GeneratorExit
 raise
Georg