[Python-Dev] Idea for avoiding exception masking (original) (raw)

Ka-Ping Yee ping@zesty.ca
Tue, 28 Jan 2003 18:36:03 -0600 (CST)

On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Raymond Hettinger wrote:

Python code has a number of cases where a higher level routine traps an exception and reraises it with new information and losing the lower level error detail in the process.

How about just holding on to the original exception and storing it as an attribute (e.g. "cause") on the new exception?

-- ?!ng