[New-bugs-announce] [issue22169] sys.tracebacklimit = 0 does not work as documented in 3.x

[Orson Peters]

New submission from Orson Peters:

According to the documentation of sys.tracebacklimit, setting it to 0 or less would assure "all traceback information is suppressed and only the exception type and value are printed".

This is not the case:

    $ python -c "import sys; sys.tracebacklimit = 0; raise Exception()"
    Exception

    $ python3 -c "import sys; sys.tracebacklimit = 0; raise Exception()"
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
    Exception

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components: Interpreter Core
messages: 225055
nosy: orlp
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: sys.tracebacklimit = 0 does not work as documented in 3.x
versions: Python 3.1, Python 3.2, Python 3.3, Python 3.4, Python 3.5

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