Howto pass exceptions between threads

Alexander Eisenhuth

Hallo Alltogether,

I've searched in this mailing list, but it seems to me that there is no general
approach to pass exceptions from one thread to another.

I think most application do a unique way of handling "unhandled exceptions", at
least they (should) try to log them.

The following discussion seems to me most valuable (Sorry for the long URL, I
don't know a way of shorter)

http://groups.google.de/group/comp.l...820c20ff3fcea8
http://groups.google.de/group/comp.l...8a8d9e85883fe3

I've the feeling that if you're using the python class threading.Thread you've a
unique interface of handling it. (thread synchronizing + exception raising)

But' when you've a C++ extension, that uses it's own thread implementation and
your exceptions happens in python code (but from a thread that is controlled by
your extension) you have another problem.

Maybe I've overseen something in the python docu, so I ask for the solutions,
concepts, hints ... you solved the problem.

Regards
Alexander

Mar 5 '07 #1

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John Nagle

Alexander Eisenhuth wrote:

Hallo Alltogether,

I've searched in this mailing list, but it seems to me that there is no
general approach to pass exceptions from one thread to another.

Very few languages have that.

Actually, it could be made to work for Python, but it would have to
be carefully designed. Something that raises an exception in another
thread the next time the thread blocks would have relatively sane
semantics. You couldn't raise an exception on a compute-bound thread,
only at block points (locks, I/O, long system calls.)

John Nagle

Mar 5 '07 #2

Alexander Eisenhuth

John Nagle schrieb:

Alexander Eisenhuth wrote:
>Hallo Alltogether,

I've searched in this mailing list, but it seems to me that there is
no general approach to pass exceptions from one thread to another.

Very few languages have that.

Actually, it could be made to work for Python, but it would have to
be carefully designed. Something that raises an exception in another
thread the next time the thread blocks would have relatively sane
semantics. You couldn't raise an exception on a compute-bound thread,
only at block points (locks, I/O, long system calls.)

John Nagle

Yes you're right, it must be well designed with a clear responsibility
delegation. I can imgagine the following points:

- Thread termination with termination handler (for Thread instance)
- Main Thread information / synchronisation
- Default/Customized main thread exception handler

Mar 6 '07 #3

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