[C++-sig] PyErr_ExceptionMatches not working?

[Lawrence Spector]

I have code that checks the following (snippet) when an exception is thrown...

if (PyErr_ExceptionMatches(PyExc_NameError))
{
 // do something...
}

It doesn't get into that block, yet, when I do this:

PyErr_Fetch(&errObj, &errData, &errTraceback);

std::cout << "Object error" << PyString_AsString(PyObject_Str(errObj));

I get:

Object error: <type 'exceptions.NameError'>

What gives?  Why isn't PyErr_ExceptionMatches saying that it's a NameError?  Does Boost.Python provide a better way to do exception handling than the Python API directly?

Thanks,

Lawrence
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