Comment 5 for bug 337105

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Ville M. Vainio (villemvainio) wrote : Re: [Bug 337105] Re: Exception hook should be optional for embedding IPython in GUIs

On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Gael Varoquaux
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> This is simply _horrible_: module-level monkey patching. In other words:
> huge side effects. I don't think this solution is acceptabe, and I'd like
> this bug reopened, admitedly with a milestone set for later than 0.10.

I agree that it's horrible. A proper solution would be to implement
the crash handler as a hook (and have current crash handler as the
default handler if hook raises TryNext).

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