[Python-Dev] with_traceback (original) (raw)

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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