Re: Exception compatibility with aliens

On Wed, 18 Jan 2023 12:04:41 +0200
Ville Voutilainen via Std-Proposals <[email protected]>
wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Jan 2023 at 11:45, Frederick Virchanza Gotham via
> Std-Proposals <[email protected]> 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/[email protected]/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.