Message 100993 - Python tracker (original) (raw)

Python 3.2a0 (py3k:78205M, Feb 16 2010, 17:32:08) [GCC 4.4.1] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

e = None [50279 refs] e [50279 refs] try: raise ValueError ... except ValueError as e: pass ... [50277 refs] e Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in NameError: name 'e' is not defined [50277 refs]

Same for 3.1.1. Note how the refcount is going down after the try-except.