Can I hide internal method calls from an exception stack trace?

[Paul McGuire]

On Nov 7, 10:30 am, Peter Otten <__pete... at web.de> wrote:
> Paul McGuire wrote:
> > Is there any way to hide portions of an exception stack trace?  When
>
> Add a try...except at the appropriate level. Why do you want to do anything
> more complex?
>
> Peter

I thought I tried that, and now in retrying, I learned a little about
exceptions.

My first attempt was to use this code in the entry method of the API
(parseString):

        try:
            loc, tokens = self._parse( instring, 0 )
            if parseAll:
                loc = self.preParse( instring, loc )
                StringEnd()._parse( instring, loc )
        except ParseBaseException, exc:
            raise
        else:
            return tokens

This didn't change the stack trace at all.  But when I change it to
this:

        try:
            loc, tokens = self._parse( instring, 0 )
            if parseAll:
                loc = self.preParse( instring, loc )
                StringEnd()._parse( instring, loc )
        except ParseBaseException, exc:
            raise exc
        else:
            return tokens

Now the stack trace only shows my top-level API method.  (I've also
added a little self-explanatory comment as to why I am catching an
exception, just to raise it again.)

Thanks for the nudge in the right direction,
-- Paul