hgext/purge.py

node: stop converting binascii.Error to TypeError in bin()

Changeset f574cc00831a introduced the wrapper, to make bin() behave like on
Python 2, where it raised TypeError in many cases. Another previous approach,
changing callers to catch binascii.Error in addition to TypeError, was backed
out after negative review feedback [1].

However, I think it’s worth reconsidering the approach. Now that we’re on
Python 3 only, callers have to catch only binascii.Error instead of both.
Catching binascii.Error instead of TypeError has the advantage that it’s less
likely to cover a programming error (e.g. passing an int to bin() raises
TypeError). Also, raising TypeError never made sense semantically when bin()
got an argument of valid type.

As a side-effect, this fixed an exception in test-http-bad-server.t. The TODO
was outdated: it was not an uncaught ValueError in batch.results() but uncaught
TypeError from the now removed wrapper. Now that bin() raises binascii.Error
instead of TypeError, it gets converted to a proper error in
wirepeer.heads.<locals>.decode() that catches ValueError (superclass of
binascii.Error). This is a good example of why this changeset is a good idea.
Catching TypeError instead of ValueError there would not make much sense.

[1] https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D2244

# Copyright (C) 2006 - Marco Barisione <[e-mail]>
#
# This is a small extension for Mercurial (https://mercurial-scm.org/)
# that removes files not known to mercurial
#
# This program was inspired by the "cvspurge" script contained in CVS
# utilities (http://www.red-bean.com/cvsutils/).
#
# For help on the usage of "hg purge" use:
#  hg help purge
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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#
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'''command to delete untracked files from the working directory (DEPRECATED)

The functionality of this extension has been included in core Mercurial since
version 5.7. Please use :hg:`purge ...` instead. :hg:`purge --confirm` is now
the default, unless the extension is enabled for backward compatibility.
'''

# This empty extension looks pointless, but core mercurial checks if it's loaded
# to implement the slightly different behavior documented above.

# Note for extension authors: ONLY specify testedwith = 'ships-with-hg-core' for
# extensions which SHIP WITH MERCURIAL. Non-mainline extensions should
# be specifying the version(s) of Mercurial they are tested with, or
# leave the attribute unspecified.
testedwith = b'ships-with-hg-core'