Why did someone write this?

[Benjamin Niemann]

Sandra-24 wrote:

> try:
>    exc_type, exc_value, exc_traceback = sys.exc_info()
>    # Do something
> finally:
>    exc_traceback = None
> 
> Why the try/finally with setting exc_traceback to None? The python docs
> didn't give me any clue, and I'm wondering what this person knows that
> I don't.

You just have not found the right part of the doc:
http://docs.python.org/lib/module-sys.html#l2h-337

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