Exception Handling

The functions described in this chapter will let you handle and raise Python exceptions. It is important to understand some of the basics of Python exception handling. It works somewhat like the POSIX errno variable: there is a global indicator (per thread) of the last error that occurred. Most C API functions don’t clear this on success, but will set it to indicate the cause of the error on failure. Most C API functions also return an error indicator, usually NULL if they are supposed to return a pointer, or -1 if they return an integer (exception: the PyArg_* functions return 1 for success and 0 for failure).

Concretely, the error indicator consists of three object pointers: the exception’s type, the exception’s value, and the traceback object. Any of those pointers can be NULL if non-set (although some combinations are forbidden, for example you can’t have a non-NULL traceback if the exception type is NULL).

When a function must fail because some function it called failed, it generally doesn’t set the error indicator; the function it called already set it. It is responsible for either handling the error and clearing the exception or returning after cleaning up any resources it holds (such as object references or memory allocations); it should not continue normally if it is not prepared to handle the error. If returning due to an error, it is important to indicate to the caller that an error has been set. If the error is not handled or carefully propagated, additional calls into the Python/C API may not behave as intended and may fail in mysterious ways.

Nota

The error indicator is not the result of sys.exc_info(). The former corresponds to an exception that is not yet caught (and is therefore still propagating), while the latter returns an exception after it is caught (and has therefore stopped propagating).

Printing and clearing

void PyErr_Clear()
Parte del ABI Stabile.

Clear the error indicator. If the error indicator is not set, there is no effect.

void PyErr_PrintEx(int set_sys_last_vars)
Parte del ABI Stabile.

Print a standard traceback to sys.stderr and clear the error indicator. Unless the error is a SystemExit, in that case no traceback is printed and the Python process will exit with the error code specified by the SystemExit instance.

Call this function only when the error indicator is set. Otherwise it will cause a fatal error!

If set_sys_last_vars is nonzero, the variable sys.last_exc is set to the printed exception. For backwards compatibility, the deprecated variables sys.last_type, sys.last_value and sys.last_traceback are also set to the type, value and traceback of this exception, respectively.

Cambiato nella versione 3.12: The setting of sys.last_exc was added.

void PyErr_Print()
Parte del ABI Stabile.

Alias for PyErr_PrintEx(1).

void PyErr_WriteUnraisable(PyObject *obj)
Parte del ABI Stabile.

Call sys.unraisablehook() using the current exception and obj argument.

This utility function prints a warning message to sys.stderr when an exception has been set but it is impossible for the interpreter to actually raise the exception. It is used, for example, when an exception occurs in an __del__() method.

The function is called with a single argument obj that identifies the context in which the unraisable exception occurred. If possible, the repr of obj will be printed in the warning message. If obj is NULL, only the traceback is printed.

An exception must be set when calling this function.

Cambiato nella versione 3.4: Print a traceback. Print only traceback if obj is NULL.

Cambiato nella versione 3.8: Use sys.unraisablehook().

void PyErr_FormatUnraisable(const char *format, ...)

Similar to PyErr_WriteUnraisable(), but the format and subsequent parameters help format the warning message; they have the same meaning and values as in PyUnicode_FromFormat(). PyErr_WriteUnraisable(obj) is roughly equivalent to PyErr_FormatUnraisable("Exception ignored in: %R", obj). If format is NULL, only the traceback is printed.

Added in version 3.13.

void PyErr_DisplayException(PyObject *exc)
Parte del ABI Stabile dalla versione 3.12.

Print the standard traceback display of exc to sys.stderr, including chained exceptions and notes.

Added in version 3.12.

Raising exceptions

These functions help you set the current thread’s error indicator. For convenience, some of these functions will always return a NULL pointer for use in a return statement.

void PyErr_SetString(PyObject *type, const char *message)
Parte del ABI Stabile.

This is the most common way to set the error indicator. The first argument specifies the exception type; it is normally one of the standard exceptions, e.g. PyExc_RuntimeError. You need not create a new strong reference to it (e.g. with Py_INCREF()). The second argument is an error message; it is decoded from 'utf-8'.

void PyErr_SetObject(PyObject *type, PyObject *value)
Parte del ABI Stabile.

This function is similar to PyErr_SetString() but lets you specify an arbitrary Python object for the «value» of the exception.

PyObject *PyErr_Format(PyObject *exception, const char *format, ...)
Valore di ritorno: Sempre NULL. Parte del ABI Stabile.

This function sets the error indicator and returns NULL. exception should be a Python exception class. The format and subsequent parameters help format the error message; they have the same meaning and values as in PyUnicode_FromFormat(). format is an ASCII-encoded string.

PyObject *PyErr_FormatV(PyObject *exception, const char *format, va_list vargs)
Valore di ritorno: Sempre NULL. Parte del ABI Stabile dalla versione 3.5.

Same as PyErr_Format(), but taking a va_list argument rather than a variable number of arguments.

Added in version 3.5.

void PyErr_SetNone(PyObject *type)
Parte del ABI Stabile.

This is a shorthand for PyErr_SetObject(type, Py_None).

int PyErr_BadArgument()
Parte del ABI Stabile.

This is a shorthand for PyErr_SetString(PyExc_TypeError, message), where message indicates that a built-in operation was invoked with an illegal argument. It is mostly for internal use.

PyObject *PyErr_NoMemory()
Valore di ritorno: Sempre NULL. Parte del ABI Stabile.

This is a shorthand for PyErr_SetNone(PyExc_MemoryError); it returns NULL so an object allocation function can write return PyErr_NoMemory(); when it runs out of memory.

PyObject *PyErr_SetFromErrno(PyObject *type)
Valore di ritorno: Sempre NULL. Parte del ABI Stabile.

This is a convenience function to raise an exception when a C library function has returned an error and set the C variable errno. It constructs a tuple object whose first item is the integer errno value and whose second item is the corresponding error message (gotten from strerror()), and then calls PyErr_SetObject(type, object). On Unix, when the errno value is EINTR, indicating an interrupted system call, this calls PyErr_CheckSignals(), and if that set the error indicator, leaves it set to that. The function always returns NULL, so a wrapper function around a system call can write return PyErr_SetFromErrno(type); when the system call returns an error.

PyObject *PyErr_SetFromErrnoWithFilenameObject(PyObject *type, PyObject *filenameObject)
Valore di ritorno: Sempre NULL. Parte del ABI Stabile.

Similar to PyErr_SetFromErrno(), with the additional behavior that if filenameObject is not NULL, it is passed to the constructor of type as a third parameter. In the case of OSError exception, this is used to define the filename attribute of the exception instance.

PyObject *PyErr_SetFromErrnoWithFilenameObjects(PyObject *type, PyObject *filenameObject, PyObject *filenameObject2)
Valore di ritorno: Sempre NULL. Parte del ABI Stabile dalla versione 3.7.

Similar to PyErr_SetFromErrnoWithFilenameObject(), but takes a second filename object, for raising errors when a function that takes two filenames fails.

Added in version 3.4.

PyObject *PyErr_SetFromErrnoWithFilename(PyObject *type, const char *filename)
Valore di ritorno: Sempre NULL. Parte del ABI Stabile.

Similar to PyErr_SetFromErrnoWithFilenameObject(), but the filename is given as a C string. filename is decoded from the filesystem encoding and error handler.

PyObject *PyErr_SetFromWindowsErr(int ierr)
Valore di ritorno: Sempre NULL. Parte del ABI Stabile on Windows dalla versione 3.7.

This is a convenience function to raise OSError. If called with ierr of 0, the error code returned by a call to GetLastError() is used instead. It calls the Win32 function FormatMessage() to retrieve the Windows description of error code given by ierr or GetLastError(), then it constructs a OSError object with the winerror attribute set to the error code, the strerror attribute set to the corresponding error message (gotten from FormatMessage()), and then calls PyErr_SetObject(PyExc_OSError, object). This function always returns NULL.

Availability: Windows.

PyObject *PyErr_SetExcFromWindowsErr(PyObject *type, int ierr)
Valore di ritorno: Sempre NULL. Parte del ABI Stabile on Windows dalla versione 3.7.

Similar to PyErr_SetFromWindowsErr(), with an additional parameter specifying the exception type to be raised.

Availability: Windows.

PyObject *PyErr_SetFromWindowsErrWithFilename(int ierr, const char *filename)
Valore di ritorno: Sempre NULL. Parte del ABI Stabile on Windows dalla versione 3.7.

Similar to PyErr_SetFromWindowsErr(), with the additional behavior that if filename is not NULL, it is decoded from the filesystem encoding (os.fsdecode()) and passed to the constructor of OSError as a third parameter to be used to define the filename attribute of the exception instance.

Availability: Windows.

PyObject *PyErr_SetExcFromWindowsErrWithFilenameObject(PyObject *type, int ierr, PyObject *filename)
Valore di ritorno: Sempre NULL. Parte del ABI Stabile on Windows dalla versione 3.7.

Similar to PyErr_SetExcFromWindowsErr(), with the additional behavior that if filename is not NULL, it is passed to the constructor of OSError as a third parameter to be used to define the filename attribute of the exception instance.

Availability: Windows.

PyObject *PyErr_SetExcFromWindowsErrWithFilenameObjects(PyObject *type, int ierr, PyObject *filename, PyObject *filename2)
Valore di ritorno: Sempre NULL. Parte del ABI Stabile on Windows dalla versione 3.7.

Similar to PyErr_SetExcFromWindowsErrWithFilenameObject(), but accepts a second filename object.

Availability: Windows.

Added in version 3.4.

PyObject *PyErr_SetExcFromWindowsErrWithFilename(PyObject *type, int ierr, const char *filename)
Valore di ritorno: Sempre NULL. Parte del ABI Stabile on Windows dalla versione 3.7.

Similar to PyErr_SetFromWindowsErrWithFilename(), with an additional parameter specifying the exception type to be raised.

Availability: Windows.

PyObject *PyErr_SetImportError(PyObject *msg, PyObject *name, PyObject *path)
Valore di ritorno: Sempre NULL. Parte del ABI Stabile dalla versione 3.7.

This is a convenience function to raise ImportError. msg will be set as the exception’s message string. name and path, both of which can be NULL, will be set as the ImportError’s respective name and path attributes.

Added in version 3.3.

PyObject *PyErr_SetImportErrorSubclass(PyObject *exception, PyObject *msg, PyObject *name, PyObject *path)
Valore di ritorno: Sempre NULL. Parte del ABI Stabile dalla versione 3.6.

Much like PyErr_SetImportError() but this function allows for specifying a subclass of ImportError to raise.

Added in version 3.6.

void PyErr_SyntaxLocationObject(PyObject *filename, int lineno, int col_offset)

Set file, line, and offset information for the current exception. If the current exception is not a SyntaxError, then it sets additional attributes, which make the exception printing subsystem think the exception is a SyntaxError.

Added in version 3.4.

void PyErr_SyntaxLocationEx(const char *filename, int lineno, int col_offset)
Parte del ABI Stabile dalla versione 3.7.

Like PyErr_SyntaxLocationObject(), but filename is a byte string decoded from the filesystem encoding and error handler.

Added in version 3.2.

void PyErr_SyntaxLocation(const char *filename, int lineno)
Parte del ABI Stabile.

Like PyErr_SyntaxLocationEx(), but the col_offset parameter is omitted.

void PyErr_BadInternalCall()
Parte del ABI Stabile.

This is a shorthand for PyErr_SetString(PyExc_SystemError, message), where message indicates that an internal operation (e.g. a Python/C API function) was invoked with an illegal argument. It is mostly for internal use.

Issuing warnings

Use these functions to issue warnings from C code. They mirror similar functions exported by the Python warnings module. They normally print a warning message to sys.stderr; however, it is also possible that the user has specified that warnings are to be turned into errors, and in that case they will raise an exception. It is also possible that the functions raise an exception because of a problem with the warning machinery. The return value is 0 if no exception is raised, or -1 if an exception is raised. (It is not possible to determine whether a warning message is actually printed, nor what the reason is for the exception; this is intentional.) If an exception is raised, the caller should do its normal exception handling (for example, Py_DECREF() owned references and return an error value).

int PyErr_WarnEx(PyObject *category, const char *message, Py_ssize_t stack_level)
Parte del ABI Stabile.

Issue a warning message. The category argument is a warning category (see below) or NULL; the message argument is a UTF-8 encoded string. stack_level is a positive number giving a number of stack frames; the warning will be issued from the currently executing line of code in that stack frame. A stack_level of 1 is the function calling PyErr_WarnEx(), 2 is the function above that, and so forth.

Warning categories must be subclasses of PyExc_Warning; PyExc_Warning is a subclass of PyExc_Exception; the default warning category is PyExc_RuntimeWarning. The standard Python warning categories are available as global variables whose names are enumerated at Standard Warning Categories.

For information about warning control, see the documentation for the warnings module and the -W option in the command line documentation. There is no C API for warning control.

int PyErr_WarnExplicitObject(PyObject *category, PyObject *message, PyObject *filename, int lineno, PyObject *module, PyObject *registry)

Issue a warning message with explicit control over all warning attributes. This is a straightforward wrapper around the Python function warnings.warn_explicit(); see there for more information. The module and registry arguments may be set to NULL to get the default effect described there.

Added in version 3.4.

int PyErr_WarnExplicit(PyObject *category, const char *message, const char *filename, int lineno, const char *module, PyObject *registry)
Parte del ABI Stabile.

Similar to PyErr_WarnExplicitObject() except that message and module are UTF-8 encoded strings, and filename is decoded from the filesystem encoding and error handler.

int PyErr_WarnFormat(PyObject *category, Py_ssize_t stack_level, const char *format, ...)
Parte del ABI Stabile.

Function similar to PyErr_WarnEx(), but use PyUnicode_FromFormat() to format the warning message. format is an ASCII-encoded string.

Added in version 3.2.

int PyErr_ResourceWarning(PyObject *source, Py_ssize_t stack_level, const char *format, ...)
Parte del ABI Stabile dalla versione 3.6.

Function similar to PyErr_WarnFormat(), but category is ResourceWarning and it passes source to warnings.WarningMessage.

Added in version 3.6.

Querying the error indicator

PyObject *PyErr_Occurred()
Valore di ritorno: Riferimento preso in prestito. Parte del ABI Stabile.

Test whether the error indicator is set. If set, return the exception type (the first argument to the last call to one of the PyErr_Set* functions or to PyErr_Restore()). If not set, return NULL. You do not own a reference to the return value, so you do not need to Py_DECREF() it.

The caller must hold the GIL.

Nota

Do not compare the return value to a specific exception; use PyErr_ExceptionMatches() instead, shown below. (The comparison could easily fail since the exception may be an instance instead of a class, in the case of a class exception, or it may be a subclass of the expected exception.)

int PyErr_ExceptionMatches(PyObject *exc)
Parte del ABI Stabile.

Equivalent to PyErr_GivenExceptionMatches(PyErr_Occurred(), exc). This should only be called when an exception is actually set; a memory access violation will occur if no exception has been raised.

int PyErr_GivenExceptionMatches(PyObject *given, PyObject *exc)
Parte del ABI Stabile.

Return true if the given exception matches the exception type in exc. If exc is a class object, this also returns true when given is an instance of a subclass. If exc is a tuple, all exception types in the tuple (and recursively in subtuples) are searched for a match.

PyObject *PyErr_GetRaisedException(void)
Valore di ritorno: Nuovo riferimento. Parte del ABI Stabile dalla versione 3.12.

Return the exception currently being raised, clearing the error indicator at the same time. Return NULL if the error indicator is not set.

This function is used by code that needs to catch exceptions, or code that needs to save and restore the error indicator temporarily.

For example:

{
   PyObject *exc = PyErr_GetRaisedException();

   /* ... code that might produce other errors ... */

   PyErr_SetRaisedException(exc);
}

Vedi anche

PyErr_GetHandledException(), to save the exception currently being handled.

Added in version 3.12.

void PyErr_SetRaisedException(PyObject *exc)
Parte del ABI Stabile dalla versione 3.12.

Set exc as the exception currently being raised, clearing the existing exception if one is set.

Avvertimento

This call steals a reference to exc, which must be a valid exception.

Added in version 3.12.

void PyErr_Fetch(PyObject **ptype, PyObject **pvalue, PyObject **ptraceback)
Parte del ABI Stabile.

Deprecato dalla versione 3.12: Use PyErr_GetRaisedException() instead.

Retrieve the error indicator into three variables whose addresses are passed. If the error indicator is not set, set all three variables to NULL. If it is set, it will be cleared and you own a reference to each object retrieved. The value and traceback object may be NULL even when the type object is not.

Nota

This function is normally only used by legacy code that needs to catch exceptions or save and restore the error indicator temporarily.

For example:

{
   PyObject *type, *value, *traceback;
   PyErr_Fetch(&type, &value, &traceback);

   /* ... code that might produce other errors ... */

   PyErr_Restore(type, value, traceback);
}
void PyErr_Restore(PyObject *type, PyObject *value, PyObject *traceback)
Parte del ABI Stabile.

Deprecato dalla versione 3.12: Use PyErr_SetRaisedException() instead.

Set the error indicator from the three objects, type, value, and traceback, clearing the existing exception if one is set. If the objects are NULL, the error indicator is cleared. Do not pass a NULL type and non-NULL value or traceback. The exception type should be a class. Do not pass an invalid exception type or value. (Violating these rules will cause subtle problems later.) This call takes away a reference to each object: you must own a reference to each object before the call and after the call you no longer own these references. (If you don’t understand this, don’t use this function. I warned you.)

Nota

This function is normally only used by legacy code that needs to save and restore the error indicator temporarily. Use PyErr_Fetch() to save the current error indicator.

void PyErr_NormalizeException(PyObject **exc, PyObject **val, PyObject **tb)
Parte del ABI Stabile.

Deprecato dalla versione 3.12: Use PyErr_GetRaisedException() instead, to avoid any possible de-normalization.

Under certain circumstances, the values returned by PyErr_Fetch() below can be «unnormalized», meaning that *exc is a class object but *val is not an instance of the same class. This function can be used to instantiate the class in that case. If the values are already normalized, nothing happens. The delayed normalization is implemented to improve performance.

Nota

This function does not implicitly set the __traceback__ attribute on the exception value. If setting the traceback appropriately is desired, the following additional snippet is needed:

if (tb != NULL) {
  PyException_SetTraceback(val, tb);
}
PyObject *PyErr_GetHandledException(void)
Parte del ABI Stabile dalla versione 3.11.

Retrieve the active exception instance, as would be returned by sys.exception(). This refers to an exception that was already caught, not to an exception that was freshly raised. Returns a new reference to the exception or NULL. Does not modify the interpreter’s exception state.

Nota

This function is not normally used by code that wants to handle exceptions. Rather, it can be used when code needs to save and restore the exception state temporarily. Use PyErr_SetHandledException() to restore or clear the exception state.

Added in version 3.11.

void PyErr_SetHandledException(PyObject *exc)
Parte del ABI Stabile dalla versione 3.11.

Set the active exception, as known from sys.exception(). This refers to an exception that was already caught, not to an exception that was freshly raised. To clear the exception state, pass NULL.

Nota

This function is not normally used by code that wants to handle exceptions. Rather, it can be used when code needs to save and restore the exception state temporarily. Use PyErr_GetHandledException() to get the exception state.

Added in version 3.11.

void PyErr_GetExcInfo(PyObject **ptype, PyObject **pvalue, PyObject **ptraceback)
Parte del ABI Stabile dalla versione 3.7.

Retrieve the old-style representation of the exception info, as known from sys.exc_info(). This refers to an exception that was already caught, not to an exception that was freshly raised. Returns new references for the three objects, any of which may be NULL. Does not modify the exception info state. This function is kept for backwards compatibility. Prefer using PyErr_GetHandledException().

Nota

This function is not normally used by code that wants to handle exceptions. Rather, it can be used when code needs to save and restore the exception state temporarily. Use PyErr_SetExcInfo() to restore or clear the exception state.

Added in version 3.3.

void PyErr_SetExcInfo(PyObject *type, PyObject *value, PyObject *traceback)
Parte del ABI Stabile dalla versione 3.7.

Set the exception info, as known from sys.exc_info(). This refers to an exception that was already caught, not to an exception that was freshly raised. This function steals the references of the arguments. To clear the exception state, pass NULL for all three arguments. This function is kept for backwards compatibility. Prefer using PyErr_SetHandledException().

Nota

This function is not normally used by code that wants to handle exceptions. Rather, it can be used when code needs to save and restore the exception state temporarily. Use PyErr_GetExcInfo() to read the exception state.

Added in version 3.3.

Cambiato nella versione 3.11: The type and traceback arguments are no longer used and can be NULL. The interpreter now derives them from the exception instance (the value argument). The function still steals references of all three arguments.

Signal Handling

int PyErr_CheckSignals()
Parte del ABI Stabile.

This function interacts with Python’s signal handling.

If the function is called from the main thread and under the main Python interpreter, it checks whether a signal has been sent to the processes and if so, invokes the corresponding signal handler. If the signal module is supported, this can invoke a signal handler written in Python.

The function attempts to handle all pending signals, and then returns 0. However, if a Python signal handler raises an exception, the error indicator is set and the function returns -1 immediately (such that other pending signals may not have been handled yet: they will be on the next PyErr_CheckSignals() invocation).

If the function is called from a non-main thread, or under a non-main Python interpreter, it does nothing and returns 0.

This function can be called by long-running C code that wants to be interruptible by user requests (such as by pressing Ctrl-C).

Nota

The default Python signal handler for SIGINT raises the KeyboardInterrupt exception.

void PyErr_SetInterrupt()
Parte del ABI Stabile.

Simulate the effect of a SIGINT signal arriving. This is equivalent to PyErr_SetInterruptEx(SIGINT).

Nota

This function is async-signal-safe. It can be called without the GIL and from a C signal handler.

int PyErr_SetInterruptEx(int signum)
Parte del ABI Stabile dalla versione 3.10.

Simulate the effect of a signal arriving. The next time PyErr_CheckSignals() is called, the Python signal handler for the given signal number will be called.

This function can be called by C code that sets up its own signal handling and wants Python signal handlers to be invoked as expected when an interruption is requested (for example when the user presses Ctrl-C to interrupt an operation).

If the given signal isn’t handled by Python (it was set to signal.SIG_DFL or signal.SIG_IGN), it will be ignored.

If signum is outside of the allowed range of signal numbers, -1 is returned. Otherwise, 0 is returned. The error indicator is never changed by this function.

Nota

This function is async-signal-safe. It can be called without the GIL and from a C signal handler.

Added in version 3.10.

int PySignal_SetWakeupFd(int fd)

This utility function specifies a file descriptor to which the signal number is written as a single byte whenever a signal is received. fd must be non-blocking. It returns the previous such file descriptor.

The value -1 disables the feature; this is the initial state. This is equivalent to signal.set_wakeup_fd() in Python, but without any error checking. fd should be a valid file descriptor. The function should only be called from the main thread.

Cambiato nella versione 3.5: On Windows, the function now also supports socket handles.

Exception Classes

PyObject *PyErr_NewException(const char *name, PyObject *base, PyObject *dict)
Valore di ritorno: Nuovo riferimento. Parte del ABI Stabile.

This utility function creates and returns a new exception class. The name argument must be the name of the new exception, a C string of the form module.classname. The base and dict arguments are normally NULL. This creates a class object derived from Exception (accessible in C as PyExc_Exception).

The __module__ attribute of the new class is set to the first part (up to the last dot) of the name argument, and the class name is set to the last part (after the last dot). The base argument can be used to specify alternate base classes; it can either be only one class or a tuple of classes. The dict argument can be used to specify a dictionary of class variables and methods.

PyObject *PyErr_NewExceptionWithDoc(const char *name, const char *doc, PyObject *base, PyObject *dict)
Valore di ritorno: Nuovo riferimento. Parte del ABI Stabile.

Same as PyErr_NewException(), except that the new exception class can easily be given a docstring: If doc is non-NULL, it will be used as the docstring for the exception class.

Added in version 3.2.

Exception Objects

PyObject *PyException_GetTraceback(PyObject *ex)
Valore di ritorno: Nuovo riferimento. Parte del ABI Stabile.

Return the traceback associated with the exception as a new reference, as accessible from Python through the __traceback__ attribute. If there is no traceback associated, this returns NULL.

int PyException_SetTraceback(PyObject *ex, PyObject *tb)
Parte del ABI Stabile.

Set the traceback associated with the exception to tb. Use Py_None to clear it.

PyObject *PyException_GetContext(PyObject *ex)
Valore di ritorno: Nuovo riferimento. Parte del ABI Stabile.

Return the context (another exception instance during whose handling ex was raised) associated with the exception as a new reference, as accessible from Python through the __context__ attribute. If there is no context associated, this returns NULL.

void PyException_SetContext(PyObject *ex, PyObject *ctx)
Parte del ABI Stabile.

Set the context associated with the exception to ctx. Use NULL to clear it. There is no type check to make sure that ctx is an exception instance. This steals a reference to ctx.

PyObject *PyException_GetCause(PyObject *ex)
Valore di ritorno: Nuovo riferimento. Parte del ABI Stabile.

Return the cause (either an exception instance, or None, set by raise ... from ...) associated with the exception as a new reference, as accessible from Python through the __cause__ attribute.

void PyException_SetCause(PyObject *ex, PyObject *cause)
Parte del ABI Stabile.

Set the cause associated with the exception to cause. Use NULL to clear it. There is no type check to make sure that cause is either an exception instance or None. This steals a reference to cause.

The __suppress_context__ attribute is implicitly set to True by this function.

PyObject *PyException_GetArgs(PyObject *ex)
Valore di ritorno: Nuovo riferimento. Parte del ABI Stabile dalla versione 3.12.

Return args of exception ex.

void PyException_SetArgs(PyObject *ex, PyObject *args)
Parte del ABI Stabile dalla versione 3.12.

Set args of exception ex to args.

PyObject *PyUnstable_Exc_PrepReraiseStar(PyObject *orig, PyObject *excs)
Questa pagina API Instabile. Potrebbe cambiare senza preavviso nelle release minori.

Implement part of the interpreter’s implementation of except*. orig is the original exception that was caught, and excs is the list of the exceptions that need to be raised. This list contains the unhandled part of orig, if any, as well as the exceptions that were raised from the except* clauses (so they have a different traceback from orig) and those that were reraised (and have the same traceback as orig). Return the ExceptionGroup that needs to be reraised in the end, or None if there is nothing to reraise.

Added in version 3.12.

Unicode Exception Objects

The following functions are used to create and modify Unicode exceptions from C.

PyObject *PyUnicodeDecodeError_Create(const char *encoding, const char *object, Py_ssize_t length, Py_ssize_t start, Py_ssize_t end, const char *reason)
Valore di ritorno: Nuovo riferimento. Parte del ABI Stabile.

Create a UnicodeDecodeError object with the attributes encoding, object, length, start, end and reason. encoding and reason are UTF-8 encoded strings.

PyObject *PyUnicodeDecodeError_GetEncoding(PyObject *exc)
PyObject *PyUnicodeEncodeError_GetEncoding(PyObject *exc)
Valore di ritorno: Nuovo riferimento. Parte del ABI Stabile.

Return the encoding attribute of the given exception object.

PyObject *PyUnicodeDecodeError_GetObject(PyObject *exc)
PyObject *PyUnicodeEncodeError_GetObject(PyObject *exc)
PyObject *PyUnicodeTranslateError_GetObject(PyObject *exc)
Valore di ritorno: Nuovo riferimento. Parte del ABI Stabile.

Return the object attribute of the given exception object.

int PyUnicodeDecodeError_GetStart(PyObject *exc, Py_ssize_t *start)
int PyUnicodeEncodeError_GetStart(PyObject *exc, Py_ssize_t *start)
int PyUnicodeTranslateError_GetStart(PyObject *exc, Py_ssize_t *start)
Parte del ABI Stabile.

Get the start attribute of the given exception object and place it into *start. start must not be NULL. Return 0 on success, -1 on failure.

int PyUnicodeDecodeError_SetStart(PyObject *exc, Py_ssize_t start)
int PyUnicodeEncodeError_SetStart(PyObject *exc, Py_ssize_t start)
int PyUnicodeTranslateError_SetStart(PyObject *exc, Py_ssize_t start)
Parte del ABI Stabile.

Set the start attribute of the given exception object to start. Return 0 on success, -1 on failure.

int PyUnicodeDecodeError_GetEnd(PyObject *exc, Py_ssize_t *end)
int PyUnicodeEncodeError_GetEnd(PyObject *exc, Py_ssize_t *end)
int PyUnicodeTranslateError_GetEnd(PyObject *exc, Py_ssize_t *end)
Parte del ABI Stabile.

Get the end attribute of the given exception object and place it into *end. end must not be NULL. Return 0 on success, -1 on failure.

int PyUnicodeDecodeError_SetEnd(PyObject *exc, Py_ssize_t end)
int PyUnicodeEncodeError_SetEnd(PyObject *exc, Py_ssize_t end)
int PyUnicodeTranslateError_SetEnd(PyObject *exc, Py_ssize_t end)
Parte del ABI Stabile.

Set the end attribute of the given exception object to end. Return 0 on success, -1 on failure.

PyObject *PyUnicodeDecodeError_GetReason(PyObject *exc)
PyObject *PyUnicodeEncodeError_GetReason(PyObject *exc)
PyObject *PyUnicodeTranslateError_GetReason(PyObject *exc)
Valore di ritorno: Nuovo riferimento. Parte del ABI Stabile.

Return the reason attribute of the given exception object.

int PyUnicodeDecodeError_SetReason(PyObject *exc, const char *reason)
int PyUnicodeEncodeError_SetReason(PyObject *exc, const char *reason)
int PyUnicodeTranslateError_SetReason(PyObject *exc, const char *reason)
Parte del ABI Stabile.

Set the reason attribute of the given exception object to reason. Return 0 on success, -1 on failure.

Recursion Control

These two functions provide a way to perform safe recursive calls at the C level, both in the core and in extension modules. They are needed if the recursive code does not necessarily invoke Python code (which tracks its recursion depth automatically). They are also not needed for tp_call implementations because the call protocol takes care of recursion handling.

int Py_EnterRecursiveCall(const char *where)
Parte del ABI Stabile dalla versione 3.9.

Marks a point where a recursive C-level call is about to be performed.

If USE_STACKCHECK is defined, this function checks if the OS stack overflowed using PyOS_CheckStack(). If this is the case, it sets a MemoryError and returns a nonzero value.

The function then checks if the recursion limit is reached. If this is the case, a RecursionError is set and a nonzero value is returned. Otherwise, zero is returned.

where should be a UTF-8 encoded string such as " in instance check" to be concatenated to the RecursionError message caused by the recursion depth limit.

Cambiato nella versione 3.9: This function is now also available in the limited API.

void Py_LeaveRecursiveCall(void)
Parte del ABI Stabile dalla versione 3.9.

Ends a Py_EnterRecursiveCall(). Must be called once for each successful invocation of Py_EnterRecursiveCall().

Cambiato nella versione 3.9: This function is now also available in the limited API.

Properly implementing tp_repr for container types requires special recursion handling. In addition to protecting the stack, tp_repr also needs to track objects to prevent cycles. The following two functions facilitate this functionality. Effectively, these are the C equivalent to reprlib.recursive_repr().

int Py_ReprEnter(PyObject *object)
Parte del ABI Stabile.

Called at the beginning of the tp_repr implementation to detect cycles.

If the object has already been processed, the function returns a positive integer. In that case the tp_repr implementation should return a string object indicating a cycle. As examples, dict objects return {...} and list objects return [...].

The function will return a negative integer if the recursion limit is reached. In that case the tp_repr implementation should typically return NULL.

Otherwise, the function returns zero and the tp_repr implementation can continue normally.

void Py_ReprLeave(PyObject *object)
Parte del ABI Stabile.

Ends a Py_ReprEnter(). Must be called once for each invocation of Py_ReprEnter() that returns zero.

Standard Exceptions

All standard Python exceptions are available as global variables whose names are PyExc_ followed by the Python exception name. These have the type PyObject*; they are all class objects. For completeness, here are all the variables:

C Name

Python Name

Notes

PyExc_BaseException

BaseException

[1]

PyExc_Exception

Exception

[1]

PyExc_ArithmeticError

ArithmeticError

[1]

PyExc_AssertionError

AssertionError

PyExc_AttributeError

AttributeError

PyExc_BlockingIOError

BlockingIOError

PyExc_BrokenPipeError

BrokenPipeError

PyExc_BufferError

BufferError

PyExc_ChildProcessError

ChildProcessError

PyExc_ConnectionAbortedError

ConnectionAbortedError

PyExc_ConnectionError

ConnectionError

PyExc_ConnectionRefusedError

ConnectionRefusedError

PyExc_ConnectionResetError

ConnectionResetError

PyExc_EOFError

EOFError

PyExc_FileExistsError

FileExistsError

PyExc_FileNotFoundError

FileNotFoundError

PyExc_FloatingPointError

FloatingPointError

PyExc_GeneratorExit

GeneratorExit

PyExc_ImportError

ImportError

PyExc_IndentationError

IndentationError

PyExc_IndexError

IndexError

PyExc_InterruptedError

InterruptedError

PyExc_IsADirectoryError

IsADirectoryError

PyExc_KeyError

KeyError

PyExc_KeyboardInterrupt

KeyboardInterrupt

PyExc_LookupError

LookupError

[1]

PyExc_MemoryError

MemoryError

PyExc_ModuleNotFoundError

ModuleNotFoundError

PyExc_NameError

NameError

PyExc_NotADirectoryError

NotADirectoryError

PyExc_NotImplementedError

NotImplementedError

PyExc_OSError

OSError

[1]

PyExc_OverflowError

OverflowError

PyExc_PermissionError

PermissionError

PyExc_ProcessLookupError

ProcessLookupError

PyExc_PythonFinalizationError

PythonFinalizationError

PyExc_RecursionError

RecursionError

PyExc_ReferenceError

ReferenceError

PyExc_RuntimeError

RuntimeError

PyExc_StopAsyncIteration

StopAsyncIteration

PyExc_StopIteration

StopIteration

PyExc_SyntaxError

SyntaxError

PyExc_SystemError

SystemError

PyExc_SystemExit

SystemExit

PyExc_TabError

TabError

PyExc_TimeoutError

TimeoutError

PyExc_TypeError

TypeError

PyExc_UnboundLocalError

UnboundLocalError

PyExc_UnicodeDecodeError

UnicodeDecodeError

PyExc_UnicodeEncodeError

UnicodeEncodeError

PyExc_UnicodeError

UnicodeError

PyExc_UnicodeTranslateError

UnicodeTranslateError

PyExc_ValueError

ValueError

PyExc_ZeroDivisionError

ZeroDivisionError

Added in version 3.3: PyExc_BlockingIOError, PyExc_BrokenPipeError, PyExc_ChildProcessError, PyExc_ConnectionError, PyExc_ConnectionAbortedError, PyExc_ConnectionRefusedError, PyExc_ConnectionResetError, PyExc_FileExistsError, PyExc_FileNotFoundError, PyExc_InterruptedError, PyExc_IsADirectoryError, PyExc_NotADirectoryError, PyExc_PermissionError, PyExc_ProcessLookupError and PyExc_TimeoutError were introduced following PEP 3151.

Added in version 3.5: PyExc_StopAsyncIteration and PyExc_RecursionError.

Added in version 3.6: PyExc_ModuleNotFoundError.

These are compatibility aliases to PyExc_OSError:

C Name

Notes

PyExc_EnvironmentError

PyExc_IOError

PyExc_WindowsError

[2]

Cambiato nella versione 3.3: These aliases used to be separate exception types.

Notes:

Standard Warning Categories

All standard Python warning categories are available as global variables whose names are PyExc_ followed by the Python exception name. These have the type PyObject*; they are all class objects. For completeness, here are all the variables:

C Name

Python Name

Notes

PyExc_Warning

Warning

[3]

PyExc_BytesWarning

BytesWarning

PyExc_DeprecationWarning

DeprecationWarning

PyExc_FutureWarning

FutureWarning

PyExc_ImportWarning

ImportWarning

PyExc_PendingDeprecationWarning

PendingDeprecationWarning

PyExc_ResourceWarning

ResourceWarning

PyExc_RuntimeWarning

RuntimeWarning

PyExc_SyntaxWarning

SyntaxWarning

PyExc_UnicodeWarning

UnicodeWarning

PyExc_UserWarning

UserWarning

Added in version 3.2: PyExc_ResourceWarning.

Notes: