[Python-checkins] bpo-23915: update and elucidate documentation of with_traceback (GH-23680)
JulienPalard
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Wed Dec 16 11:03:42 EST 2020
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/c590c2338e5a36cf3ce5b55e6d366a0675ed1db5
commit: c590c2338e5a36cf3ce5b55e6d366a0675ed1db5
branch: master
author: Irit Katriel <iritkatriel at yahoo.com>
committer: JulienPalard <julien at palard.fr>
date: 2020-12-16T17:03:32+01:00
summary:
bpo-23915: update and elucidate documentation of with_traceback (GH-23680)
files:
M Doc/library/exceptions.rst
diff --git a/Doc/library/exceptions.rst b/Doc/library/exceptions.rst
index 8fb25a50e2d40..1028213699d63 100644
--- a/Doc/library/exceptions.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/exceptions.rst
@@ -90,8 +90,13 @@ The following exceptions are used mostly as base classes for other exceptions.
.. method:: with_traceback(tb)
This method sets *tb* as the new traceback for the exception and returns
- the exception object. It is usually used in exception handling code like
- this::
+ the exception object. It was more commonly used before the exception
+ chaining features of :pep:`3134` became available. The following example
+ shows how we can convert an instance of ``SomeException`` into an
+ instance of ``OtherException`` while preserving the traceback. Once
+ raised, the current frame is pushed onto the traceback of the
+ ``OtherException``, as would have happened to the traceback of the
+ original ``SomeException`` had we allowed it to propagate to the caller.
try:
...
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