[Python-Dev] Revert #12085 fix for __del__ attribute error message

[Terry Reedy]

On 9/26/2013 3:17 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> On 26 September 2013 16:53, Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:
>>> Sure, that's doable, but it dumps the full repr of "obj" in the middle
>>> of the sentence. The thing that's not practical is the neat and tidy
>>> wording Georg proposed, because the thing passed as "obj" is actually
>>> an arbitrary Python object that may have a messy repr (like a bound
>>> method, which is what gets passed in the __del__ case), so there's
>>> definite merit in keeping that repr at the *end* of the header line.
>>
>> Then this should be fine, I guess?
>>
>> Exception caught and not propagated in: <....>
>
> Sure. I still prefer something like "Could not propagate exception
> from:" or "Caller could not propagate exception from <repr>" that
> better indicates we're suppressing it because it's infeasible to raise
> it rather than just because we feel like it, but any of them would
> offer a decent improvement over the status quo.

With the full traceback printed, with the line where the exception 
originated, I do not think that the representation of the object is 
needed. It was a substitute for the traceback.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy