catching exceptions from an except: block

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 16:19:27 -0800, Paul Rubin wrote:

> Steven D'Aprano <steve at REMOVEME.cybersource.com.au> writes:
>> I thought "raise" on its own was supposed to re-raise the previous
>> exception, but I've just tried it in the interactive interpreter and it
>> doesn't work for me.
> 
> It means you can catch an exception, do stuff with it, and then pass
> it upward to earlier callers:

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Are you saying it only works as advertised within the except clause of a
try...except block?



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Steven D'Aprano