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

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sat Mar 3 01:32:56 CET 2007

Michael Foord wrote:

Greg Ewing wrote:

> An exception caught and raised in one thread would > be vulnerable to having its traceback clobbered by > another thread raising the same instance. Right - but that would still be no worse than the current situation where that information isn't available on the instance.

Um -- yes, it would, because currently you don't expect the traceback to be available from the exception. If that became the standard way to handle tracebacks, then you would expect it to work reliably.

-- Greg

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