[Python-3000] Exception re-raising woes

[Guido van Rossum]

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Adam Olsen <rhamph at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd like if a bare "raise" became purely lexical (as Guido just
> suggested), ditching all the magic.
>
> However, things such as pdb.pm() still need access to the last
> exception.  Maybe we can pare it down the bare minimum, a per-thread
> last_exception?  That'd quickly get clobbered (we should intentionally
> clear when leaving an except block), but is that ever a problem?

No, pdb.pm() uses sys.last_*, not sys.exc_*. This is three variables
set only when an unhandled exception reaches the interactive prompt
and prints a traceback there. So no worries.

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--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)