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was outdated: it was not an uncaught ValueError in batch.results() but uncaught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
[This file is here for historical purposes, all recent contributors
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Andrea Arcangeli <andrea at suse.de>
Thomas Arendsen Hein <thomas at intevation.de>
Goffredo Baroncelli <kreijack at libero.it>
Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix at mulix.org>
Mikael Berthe <mikael at lilotux.net>
Benoit Boissinot <bboissin at gmail.com>
Brendan Cully <brendan at kublai.com>
Vincent Danjean <vdanjean.ml at free.fr>
Jake Edge <jake at edge2.net>
Michael Fetterman <michael.fetterman at intel.com>
Edouard Gomez <ed.gomez at free.fr>
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Alecs King <alecsk at gmail.com>
Volker Kleinfeld <Volker.Kleinfeld at gmx.de>
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Christopher Li <hg at chrisli.org>
Chris Mason <mason at suse.com>
Colin McMillen <mcmillen at cs.cmu.edu>
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