Raising objects

[Greg Ewing (using news.cis.dfn.de)]

Andrew Dalke wrote:
> However, if all exceptions were derived from Exception
> then you could do
> 
> except Exception, e:
>    ... use e ...
> 
> This cleans up the wart at the expense of not allowing
> any old object to be thrown.

Another related wart could be cleaned up at the same
time: if the traceback were available as an attribute
of the exception, it would eliminate the need for
sys.exc_info altogether.

-- 
Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,	
Christchurch, New Zealand
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg