[Python-Dev] with_traceback
Adam Olsen
rhamph at gmail.com
Thu Mar 1 02:29:11 CET 2007
On 2/28/07, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> Adam Olsen wrote:
>
> > It sounds like we should always copy the exception given to raise,
>
> I don't like that either, for all the reasons that
> make it infeasible to copy an arbitrary object in a
> general way.
Exceptions aren't arbitrary objects though. The requirement that they
inherit from BaseException is specifically to create a common
interface. Copying would be an extension of that interface.
I believe calling copy.copy() would be sufficient.
--
Adam Olsen, aka Rhamphoryncus
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