[Python-Dev] PEP-317

[Greg Ewing]

> It was brought up once that raising an exception after another
> exception was already raised ... causes the original exception to be
> ignored.  It was suggested to keep a reference to the previous
> exception in the current exception

Ah, I see, thanks.

Also while we're at it, how about storing the traceback in the
exception object, and getting rid of sys.exc_info() etc.?

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