[issue4486] Exception traceback is incorrect for strange exception handling

[Nick Coghlan]

Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> added the comment:

Looks to me like the display code is getting confused by the lack of a
non-None __context__ on the KeyError.

Perhaps the "raise ex from cause" syntax should be setting the
__context__ on the "cause" exception if it isn't already set?

Or else we could just special case this kind of weird programmer
behaviour in the display code.
 
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>>> try:
...   raise IOError
... except Exception as ex:
...   ke = KeyError()
...   ke.__context__ = ex
...   raise AttributeError from ke
...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 2, in <module>
IOError

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

KeyError

The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 6, in <module>
AttributeError
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