Traceback spoofing

[Terry Reedy]

On 5/21/2010 7:22 PM, Zac Burns wrote:
> Why can't I inherit from traceback to 'spoof' tracebacks?

Because a) they are, at least in part, an internal implementation detail 
of CPython, and b) even if you could, Python would use the builtin 
original with exceptions, and c) you can probably do anything sensible 
you want with them by wrapping them, as in, define a class with a 
traceback as the main instance attribute.