[Python-Dev] Handle errors in cleanup code (original) (raw)

Nathaniel Smith njs at pobox.com
Mon Jun 12 20:26:07 EDT 2017


On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 6:29 AM, Stefan Ring <stefanrin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yury in the comment for PR 2108 [1] suggested more complicated code: > > dosomething() > try: > dosomethingother() > except BaseException as ex: > try: > undosomething() > finally: > raise ex And this is still bad, because it loses the back trace. The way we do it is: dosomething() try: dosomethingother() except BaseException as ex: tb = sys.excinfo()[2] try: undosomething() finally: raise ex, None, tb

Are you testing on python 2? On Python 3 just plain 'raise ex' seems to give a sensible traceback for me...

-n

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