python-complete-symbol hangs

From: "Michael Droettboom" <mike@droettboom.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Cc: fx@gnu.org
Subject: python-complete-symbol hangs
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 13:55:16 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7b2578730709071055s6a9a13a0y956c40de548e0dc8@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

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python-complete-symbol works by calling "complete()" in etc/emacs.py.
If that Python function fails (i.e. raises an exception), emacs will
hang waiting for a response, with no recourse but to kill the emacs
process.

The attached patch fixes this by always outputting a response.

-- 
Michael Droettboom
http://www.droettboom.com/

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*** emacs.py	2007-09-07 13:38:29.000000000 -0400
--- /home/mdroe/builds/emacs-22.1/etc/emacs.py	2007-05-14 10:56:28.000000000 -0400
***************
*** 176,184 ****
  		    names.add('__class__')
  		    names.union_update (class_members (object))
  	    except: names = all_names (dict)
!     except Exception, e:
!         print '_emacs_out ()'
!         return []
      l = len(name)
      print '_emacs_out (',
      for n in names:
--- 176,182 ----
  		    names.add('__class__')
  		    names.union_update (class_members (object))
  	    except: names = all_names (dict)
!     except: return []
      l = len(name)
      print '_emacs_out (',
      for n in names:

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