Exception question

[Steven Bethard]

Ron Adam wrote:
> 
> Do exceptions that take place get stored in a stack or list someplace?
[snip]
> I know I can catch the error and store it myself with,
> 
>     except Exception, exc:
> 
> or possibly,
> 
>     errlist = []
>     errlist.append(sys.exc_info())
> 
> But what I want to know is does the interpreter do that in any way?  And 
> if so, can I access it?

No, but there's been some recent talk about having it do so:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-May/053672.html

If that happens though, it's not likely to show up before Python 3.0. 
Too backwards incompatible to do now.  It also seems that the exact 
semantics haven't yet been agreed upon.

STeVe