Is StopIteration a singleton?

Date	2014-11-20 12:52 +1100
Subject	Is StopIteration a singleton?
From	Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Message-ID	<mailman.16002.1416448354.18130.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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While poking about the cpython source tree with reference to PEP 479,
I came across this:

https://docs.python.org/3.5/library/marshal.html

"""singletons None, Ellipsis and StopIteration can also be marshalled
and unmarshalled."""

StopIteration is a type. I suppose it's still kinda true that there's
only one StopIteration class (otherwise exception handling would get
very messy), but it seems unusual that this one particular exception
class should be special-cased. (And yes, the code does correspond -
marshal.c:293 handles StopIteration with its own byte code.)

Why is StopIteration marshallable but no other exception is? Or, if
they are marshallable, why does this one get special handling?

ChrisA

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Is StopIteration a singleton? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-11-20 12:52 +1100
  Re: Is StopIteration a singleton? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2014-11-20 05:09 +0000
    Re: Is StopIteration a singleton? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-11-20 16:16 +1100
    Re: Is StopIteration a singleton? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-11-20 22:40 -0500
    Re: Is StopIteration a singleton? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-11-21 15:23 +1100
    Re: Is StopIteration a singleton? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-11-20 23:54 -0500

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