[Python-Dev] Have been sick, am behind on mail, let me know if there's anything urgent for me

[Benjamin Peterson]

[just ccing python-dev]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 10:17 PM, Benjamin Peterson
<musiccomposition at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 10:08 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 7:19 PM, Benjamin Peterson
>> <musiccomposition at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I think that we should accept Antoine's patch and begin the twilight
>>> years of sys.exc_info in favor of passing the exception instances
>>> around. This makes for more explicit and less magical code. I don't
>>> think there's any sys.exc_info case that can't be rewritten without
>>> it.
>>
>> OK, assuming it works and doesn't break any unittests (or fixes the
>> ones it expects to break), and has unittests for the new behavior, I'd
>> say go for it.
>
> Excellent!
>
>>
>>> I think the implicit chaining is assuming a little too much
>>> about the needs of the program.
>>
>> That's why it's on a separate attribute. It can be handy to use when
>> you need to debug an exception that happens in an exception handle.
>> Sometimes it just helps to know why the handler was being invoked in
>> the first place, other times you really want to know the original
>> exception because that's the problem you're trying to track down. But
>> I believe this is where Collin ran into a brick wall. I still think it
>> could be implemented post beta 1.
>
> Ok. I will make an issue for it in the morning.
>
> Thanks for your pronouncements.
>
>
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Benjamin Peterson
> "There's no place like 127.0.0.1."
>



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Cheers,
Benjamin Peterson
"There's no place like 127.0.0.1."