[Python-3000] sys.exc_info()

[Guido van Rossum]

On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 8:16 PM, Adam Olsen <rhamph at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 8:56 PM, Fred Drake <fdrake at acm.org> wrote:
>> On May 31, 2008, at 6:42 PM, Tim Delaney wrote:
>>>
>>> This reminds me of something I've thought a few times - maybe the tuple
>>> returned from sys.exc_info() should be a named tuple.
>>
>> +1
>
> It should be replaced with a function that returns only the value -
> type and traceback are both redundant now.  I don't think anything's
> been proposed yet though.

Since I expect that in a while we will be able to deprecate
sys.exc_info() and later kill it, I would rather not meddle with it
now. There is tons of code out there that does fairly obscure things
with it, and keeping that code happy is higher on my list than
cleaning up an API that's eventually doomed.

I'm similarly underwhelmed by the idea having it return a named tuple.
I personally don't have any trouble keeping three values apart, so I
don't think it adds much.

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