Handle generator exceptions in its consumer

Question

This is a follow-up to Handle an exception thrown in a generator and discusses a more general problem.

I have a function that reads data in different formats. All fo

Answer 1

Actually, generators are quite limited in several aspects. You found one: the raising of exceptions is not part of their API.

You could have a look at the Stackless Python stuff like greenlets or coroutines which offer a lot more flexibility; but diving into that is a bit out of scope here.