[Twisted-Python] If the errbacks of a canceled Deferred are called with error other than CancelledError, is this acceptable?

[Glyph]

On Jun 18, 2013, at 2:13 PM, Itamar Turner-Trauring <itamar at itamarst.org> wrote:

> On 06/18/2013 02:22 PM, Glyph wrote:
>> Making an API that previously documented raising (or failing) exception types A, B, and C raise (or fail with) D is not necessarily a compatible change.  Making it raise (or fail with) A' (a subclass of A) is, though.
>> 
> The API for pop3client does *not* document the expected exceptions, so backwards compatibility isn't really an issue here.

Hrm.  I would say that if you don't document exceptions, then you just have to support whatever your behavior was before :).

http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/wiki/CompatibilityPolicy does not explore this issue, though.

-glyph

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