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Re: [std-proposals] Exception compatibility with aliens

From: Antoine Pitrou <antoine_at_[hidden]>
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2023 17:39:04 +0100
On Wed, 18 Jan 2023 12:04:41 +0200
Ville Voutilainen via Std-Proposals <std-proposals_at_[hidden]>
wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Jan 2023 at 11:45, Frederick Virchanza Gotham via
> Std-Proposals <std-proposals_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> >
> > I have sent this email to two mailing lists for programming language
> > proposals, the one for C++ and the one for Python. If you reply to
> > this email, please make sure you reply to both. You can see the
> > mailing list archives for this month for each list here:
> >
> > C++ : https://lists.isocpp.org/std-proposals/2023/01/date.php
> > Python : https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev_at_[hidden]/2023/1/
> >
> > Both C++ and Python have exception handling, however a C++ program
> > which links with a Python library is unable to handle an exception
> > thrown from Python.
>
> Perhaps you should just use
> https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_81_0/libs/python/doc/html/index.html

I would suggest taking a look at pybind11 for a potentially more modern
design (also, free of boost dependencies).
https://pybind11.readthedocs.io/en/latest/advanced/exceptions.html

Regards

Antoine.

Received on 2023-01-19 16:45:05