[Python-Dev] Re: Rationale for sum()'s design?
Nicolas Fleury
nidoizo at yahoo.com
Wed Mar 16 02:49:35 CET 2005
Nick Coghlan wrote:
> Guido van Rossum wrote:
>> No, no, no! NO! Never catch a general exception like that and replace
>> it with one of your own. That can cause hours of debugging pain later
>> on when the type error is deep down in the bowels of the += operation
>> (or perhaps deep down inside something *it* invoked).
>
>
> Ouch. Obviously, I hadn't thought about that. . .
>
> Wasn't there a concept floating around some time ago to support
> exception chaining, so additional context information could be added to
> a thrown exception, without losing the location of the original problem?
Like that?
try :
(...)
except Exception, exception:
# Keep the current exception stack and add information to exception.
raise Exception(
'Additional exception info... :\n' +
sys.exc_info()[0].__name__ + ': ' +
str(exception)), None, sys.exc_info()[-1]
I made for myself a reraise function that I use a lot for that purpose,
but it has some limitations. A standard way to do it would be great.
Regards,
Nicolas
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