RE: English terminology / explanation needed

Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
>> include/svn_error_codes.h:829
>> "Python exception has been set with the error"
>> what has really happened? Has a python exeption occured? Where's the
>> rest of the sentence? What kind of error?
>
> When the python-swig bindings throw a python exception, this needs to be
> converted into an svn_error_t in C. I think this is is just a generic
> error description that means: "the python bindings threw a python
> exception."
>
> But I agree: the grammar makes no sense to me here. Maybe cmpilato or
> someone with swig-py experience can explain the grammar. I don't
> understand what "set with the error" means.

I'd venture to guess that the message is an artifact of the Python C API for raising exceptions; they are all prefixed with PyErr_Set*

Python exceptions are set globally(in a thread-local way, I presume), and C/C++ code calling Python code needs to check whether an exception is set.

See http://docs.python.org/api/exceptionHandling.html

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