Re: Exception compatibility with aliens

On Wed, 18 Jan 2023 at 11:45, Frederick Virchanza Gotham via
Std-Proposals <[email protected]> wrote:
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> 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

See also https://realpython.com/python-bindings-overview/

In both C++ and Python, exceptions can contain anything as their
payload. The problem becomes a problem of
mapping one language to the other, not just mapping exceptions. That
makes it a general cross-language binding generation problem,
so the forthcoming reflection/injection in C++ can certainly help, but
just having a 'list' of exceptions isn't going to
cut it either way.
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