[Python-Dev] What this code should do?

[Amaury Forgeot d'Arc]

Hello Maciej,

Maciej Fijalkowski wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm a little clueless about exact semantics of following snippets:
>
> http://paste.pocoo.org/show/85698/
>
> is this fine?
> or shall I fill the bug?
> (the reason to ask is because a) django is relying on this b) pypy
> implements it differently)

Note that python 3.0 has a different behaviour; in the first sample, it prints:
A (<class 'NameError'> ...
B (<class 'ZeroDivisionError'>, ...

See the subtle differences between
http://docs.python.org/dev/library/sys.html#sys.exc_info
http://docs.python.org/dev/3.0/library/sys.html#sys.exc_info

-- 
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc