1 from cpython.ref cimport PyObject
3 cdef extern from "Python.h":
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6 # 3. Exception Handling
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9 # The functions described in this chapter will let you handle and
10 # raise Python exceptions. It is important to understand some of
11 # the basics of Python exception handling. It works somewhat like
12 # the Unix errno variable: there is a global indicator (per
13 # thread) of the last error that occurred. Most functions don't
14 # clear this on success, but will set it to indicate the cause of
15 # the error on failure. Most functions also return an error
16 # indicator, usually NULL if they are supposed to return a
17 # pointer, or -1 if they return an integer (exception: the
18 # PyArg_*() functions return 1 for success and 0 for failure).
20 # When a function must fail because some function it called
21 # failed, it generally doesn't set the error indicator; the
22 # function it called already set it. It is responsible for either
23 # handling the error and clearing the exception or returning after
24 # cleaning up any resources it holds (such as object references or
25 # memory allocations); it should not continue normally if it is
26 # not prepared to handle the error. If returning due to an error,
27 # it is important to indicate to the caller that an error has been
28 # set. If the error is not handled or carefully propagated,
29 # additional calls into the Python/C API may not behave as
30 # intended and may fail in mysterious ways.
32 # The error indicator consists of three Python objects
33 # corresponding to the Python variables sys.exc_type,
34 # sys.exc_value and sys.exc_traceback. API functions exist to
35 # interact with the error indicator in various ways. There is a
36 # separate error indicator for each thread.
39 # Print a standard traceback to sys.stderr and clear the error
40 # indicator. Call this function only when the error indicator is
41 # set. (Otherwise it will cause a fatal error!)
43 PyObject* PyErr_Occurred()
44 # Return value: Borrowed reference.
45 # Test whether the error indicator is set. If set, return the
46 # exception type (the first argument to the last call to one of
47 # the PyErr_Set*() functions or to PyErr_Restore()). If not set,
48 # return NULL. You do not own a reference to the return value, so
49 # you do not need to Py_DECREF() it. Note: Do not compare the
50 # return value to a specific exception; use
51 # PyErr_ExceptionMatches() instead, shown below. (The comparison
52 # could easily fail since the exception may be an instance instead
53 # of a class, in the case of a class exception, or it may the a
54 # subclass of the expected exception.)
56 bint PyErr_ExceptionMatches(object exc)
57 # Equivalent to "PyErr_GivenExceptionMatches(PyErr_Occurred(),
58 # exc)". This should only be called when an exception is actually
59 # set; a memory access violation will occur if no exception has
62 bint PyErr_GivenExceptionMatches(object given, object exc)
63 # Return true if the given exception matches the exception in
64 # exc. If exc is a class object, this also returns true when given
65 # is an instance of a subclass. If exc is a tuple, all exceptions
66 # in the tuple (and recursively in subtuples) are searched for a
67 # match. If given is NULL, a memory access violation will occur.
69 void PyErr_NormalizeException(PyObject** exc, PyObject** val, PyObject** tb)
70 # Under certain circumstances, the values returned by
71 # PyErr_Fetch() below can be ``unnormalized'', meaning that *exc
72 # is a class object but *val is not an instance of the same
73 # class. This function can be used to instantiate the class in
74 # that case. If the values are already normalized, nothing
75 # happens. The delayed normalization is implemented to improve
79 # Clear the error indicator. If the error indicator is not set, there is no effect.
81 void PyErr_Fetch(PyObject** ptype, PyObject** pvalue, PyObject** ptraceback)
82 # Retrieve the error indicator into three variables whose
83 # addresses are passed. If the error indicator is not set, set all
84 # three variables to NULL. If it is set, it will be cleared and
85 # you own a reference to each object retrieved. The value and
86 # traceback object may be NULL even when the type object is
87 # not. Note: This function is normally only used by code that
88 # needs to handle exceptions or by code that needs to save and
89 # restore the error indicator temporarily.
91 void PyErr_Restore(PyObject* type, PyObject* value, PyObject* traceback)
92 # Set the error indicator from the three objects. If the error
93 # indicator is already set, it is cleared first. If the objects
94 # are NULL, the error indicator is cleared. Do not pass a NULL
95 # type and non-NULL value or traceback. The exception type should
96 # be a class. Do not pass an invalid exception type or
97 # value. (Violating these rules will cause subtle problems later.)
98 # This call takes away a reference to each object: you must own a
99 # reference to each object before the call and after the call you
100 # no longer own these references. (If you don't understand this,
101 # don't use this function. I warned you.) Note: This function is
102 # normally only used by code that needs to save and restore the
103 # error indicator temporarily; use PyErr_Fetch() to save the
104 # current exception state.
106 void PyErr_SetString(object type, char *message)
107 # This is the most common way to set the error indicator. The
108 # first argument specifies the exception type; it is normally one
109 # of the standard exceptions, e.g. PyExc_RuntimeError. You need
110 # not increment its reference count. The second argument is an
111 # error message; it is converted to a string object.
113 void PyErr_SetObject(object type, object value)
114 # This function is similar to PyErr_SetString() but lets you
115 # specify an arbitrary Python object for the ``value'' of the
118 PyObject* PyErr_Format(object exception, char *format, ...) except NULL
119 # Return value: Always NULL.
120 # This function sets the error indicator and returns
121 # NULL. exception should be a Python exception (class, not an
122 # instance). format should be a string, containing format codes,
123 # similar to printf(). The width.precision before a format code is
124 # parsed, but the width part is ignored.
126 void PyErr_SetNone(object type)
127 # This is a shorthand for "PyErr_SetObject(type, Py_None)".
129 int PyErr_BadArgument() except 0
131 # This is a shorthand for "PyErr_SetString(PyExc_TypeError,
132 # message)", where message indicates that a built-in operation was
133 # invoked with an illegal argument. It is mostly for internal use.
135 PyObject* PyErr_NoMemory() except NULL
136 # Return value: Always NULL.
137 # This is a shorthand for "PyErr_SetNone(PyExc_MemoryError)"; it
138 # returns NULL so an object allocation function can write "return
139 # PyErr_NoMemory();" when it runs out of memory.
141 PyObject* PyErr_SetFromErrno(object type) except NULL
142 # Return value: Always NULL.
143 # This is a convenience function to raise an exception when a C
144 # library function has returned an error and set the C variable
145 # errno. It constructs a tuple object whose first item is the
146 # integer errno value and whose second item is the corresponding
147 # error message (gotten from strerror()), and then calls
148 # "PyErr_SetObject(type, object)". On Unix, when the errno value
149 # is EINTR, indicating an interrupted system call, this calls
150 # PyErr_CheckSignals(), and if that set the error indicator,
151 # leaves it set to that. The function always returns NULL, so a
152 # wrapper function around a system call can write "return
153 # PyErr_SetFromErrno(type);" when the system call returns an
156 PyObject* PyErr_SetFromErrnoWithFilename(object type, char *filename) except NULL
157 # Return value: Always NULL. Similar to PyErr_SetFromErrno(),
158 # with the additional behavior that if filename is not NULL, it is
159 # passed to the constructor of type as a third parameter. In the
160 # case of exceptions such as IOError and OSError, this is used to
161 # define the filename attribute of the exception instance.
163 PyObject* PyErr_SetFromWindowsErr(int ierr) except NULL
164 # Return value: Always NULL. This is a convenience function to
165 # raise WindowsError. If called with ierr of 0, the error code
166 # returned by a call to GetLastError() is used instead. It calls
167 # the Win32 function FormatMessage() to retrieve the Windows
168 # description of error code given by ierr or GetLastError(), then
169 # it constructs a tuple object whose first item is the ierr value
170 # and whose second item is the corresponding error message (gotten
171 # from FormatMessage()), and then calls
172 # "PyErr_SetObject(PyExc_WindowsError, object)". This function
173 # always returns NULL. Availability: Windows.
175 PyObject* PyErr_SetExcFromWindowsErr(object type, int ierr) except NULL
176 # Return value: Always NULL. Similar to
177 # PyErr_SetFromWindowsErr(), with an additional parameter
178 # specifying the exception type to be raised. Availability:
179 # Windows. New in version 2.3.
181 PyObject* PyErr_SetFromWindowsErrWithFilename(int ierr, char *filename) except NULL
182 # Return value: Always NULL. Similar to
183 # PyErr_SetFromWindowsErr(), with the additional behavior that if
184 # filename is not NULL, it is passed to the constructor of
185 # WindowsError as a third parameter. Availability: Windows.
187 PyObject* PyErr_SetExcFromWindowsErrWithFilename(object type, int ierr, char *filename) except NULL
188 # Return value: Always NULL.
189 # Similar to PyErr_SetFromWindowsErrWithFilename(), with an
190 # additional parameter specifying the exception type to be
191 # raised. Availability: Windows.
193 void PyErr_BadInternalCall()
194 # This is a shorthand for "PyErr_SetString(PyExc_TypeError,
195 # message)", where message indicates that an internal operation
196 # (e.g. a Python/C API function) was invoked with an illegal
197 # argument. It is mostly for internal use.
199 int PyErr_WarnEx(object category, char *message, int stacklevel) except -1
200 # Issue a warning message. The category argument is a warning
201 # category (see below) or NULL; the message argument is a message
202 # string. stacklevel is a positive number giving a number of stack
203 # frames; the warning will be issued from the currently executing
204 # line of code in that stack frame. A stacklevel of 1 is the
205 # function calling PyErr_WarnEx(), 2 is the function above that,
208 int PyErr_WarnExplicit(object category, char *message, char *filename, int lineno, char *module, object registry) except -1
209 # Issue a warning message with explicit control over all warning
210 # attributes. This is a straightforward wrapper around the Python
211 # function warnings.warn_explicit(), see there for more
212 # information. The module and registry arguments may be set to
213 # NULL to get the default effect described there.
215 int PyErr_CheckSignals() except -1
216 # This function interacts with Python's signal handling. It checks
217 # whether a signal has been sent to the processes and if so,
218 # invokes the corresponding signal handler. If the signal module
219 # is supported, this can invoke a signal handler written in
220 # Python. In all cases, the default effect for SIGINT is to raise
221 # the KeyboardInterrupt exception. If an exception is raised the
222 # error indicator is set and the function returns 1; otherwise the
223 # function returns 0. The error indicator may or may not be
224 # cleared if it was previously set.
226 void PyErr_SetInterrupt()
227 # This function simulates the effect of a SIGINT signal arriving
228 # -- the next time PyErr_CheckSignals() is called,
229 # KeyboardInterrupt will be raised. It may be called without
230 # holding the interpreter lock.
232 object PyErr_NewException(char *name, object base, object dict)
233 # Return value: New reference.
234 # This utility function creates and returns a new exception
235 # object. The name argument must be the name of the new exception,
236 # a C string of the form module.class. The base and dict arguments
237 # are normally NULL. This creates a class object derived from
238 # Exception (accessible in C as PyExc_Exception).
240 void PyErr_WriteUnraisable(object obj)
241 # This utility function prints a warning message to sys.stderr
242 # when an exception has been set but it is impossible for the
243 # interpreter to actually raise the exception. It is used, for
244 # example, when an exception occurs in an __del__() method.
246 # The function is called with a single argument obj that
247 # identifies the context in which the unraisable exception
248 # occurred. The repr of obj will be printed in the warning