[Python-Dev] Exception masking/chaining (original) (raw)

Michael Hudson mwh@python.net
Thu, 12 Jun 2003 11:27:56 +0100

Greg Ewing <greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz> writes:

Guido:

More globals of course defeat the purpose (one of the reasons for putting the traceback in the exception is to get rid of sys.exctraceback). I think the idea was that this would be a C-level global, not a Python one (i.e. part of the existing group of C variables representing the current exception state).

Those are fields in the thread state, not globals, IIRC.

Cheers, M>

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