`BaseException`(`SystemExit`/`KeyboardInterrupt`) is swallowed and converted to a `TypeError` when extracting struct fields
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Description
Bug Description
Opening as a bug, but this might be considered a feature request
First - thank you for such a great library
We're using it to speedup some python in a web service running under gunicorn and hit a case where a SystemExit is swallowed and converted to a TypeError if it happened to be raised inside a field extractor in a struct
I believe this code is acting as a bare except: but IMO should be more like except Exception:
https://github.com/PyO3/pyo3/blob/ae64e57330427e5ef969f4637c59222d25b1d840/src/impl_/frompyobject.rs#L45-L62
This swallows exceptions deriving from BaseException like KeyboardInterrupt (user pressing Ctrl+C) and SystemExit (used by gunicorn to signal worker shutdown - https://github.com/benoitc/gunicorn/blob/a86ea1e4e6c271d1cd1823c7e14490123f9238fe/gunicorn/workers/base.py#L204
Steps to Reproduce
Seems to only happen with nested structs, see full repro here - https://github.com/vpoverennov/pyo3-exceptions-repro/blob/main/src/lib.rs
with a Nested class like this (simulating SystemExit being thrown into an otherwise innocuous getter function)
class Nested:
@property
def v(self):
raise SystemExit(1)
This works fine and SystemExit is raised when calling repro_w
#[derive(FromPyObject, Debug)]
struct Nested {
v: i32,
}
#[pyfunction]
fn repro_n(b: Nested) -> i32 {
println!("repro_n: {:?}", b);
b.v
}
But this converts SystemExit into a TypeError: argument 'a': failed to extract field Wrapper.n
#[derive(FromPyObject, Debug)]
struct Wrapper {
n: Nested,
}
#[derive(FromPyObject, Debug)]
struct Nested {
v: i32,
}
#[pyfunction]
fn repro_w(a: Wrapper) -> i32 {
println!("repro_w: {:?}", a);
a.n.v
}
Backtrace
Your operating system and version
Windows 10 / MacOS
Your Python version (python --version)
Python 3.10
Your Rust version (rustc --version)
rustc 1.90.0 (1159e78c4 2025-09-14)
Your PyO3 version
0.26.0
How did you install python? Did you use a virtualenv?
not relevant
Additional Info
No response
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Research direction
Start in src/impl_/frompyobject.rs at the field-extraction logic linked in the report, then reproduce the nested Wrapper/Nested example with a property that raises SystemExit. Done means SystemExit and KeyboardInterrupt propagate from nested field extraction instead of being converted into a TypeError.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python, rust
- Domain
- api, backend
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Clearly specified
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100