Issue 12064: unexpected behavior with exception variable (original) (raw)

Looks like a regression from 2.x.

On 2.7: Python 2.7.1 (r271:86832, Nov 27 2010, 17:19:03) [MSC v.1500 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

e = True try: raise Exception() ... except Exception as e: pass ... print repr(e) Exception()

On 3.2: Python 3.2 (r32:88445, Feb 20 2011, 21:30:00) [MSC v.1500 64 bit (AMD64)] on win 32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

e = True try: raise Exception() ... except Exception as e: pass ... print(repr(e)) Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in NameError: name 'e' is not defined