June 12, 2003
11:02 a.m.
Guido van Rossum wrote I think (1) and (3) aren't absolutely necessary -- strings and classic classes would simply not have the traceback attribute. For backwards compatibility it could still be kept separate in (the per-thread equivalent of) sys.exc_traceback,
As an aside, is it planned that sys.exc_traceback,type and value will start emitting DeprecationWarnings any time soon? I find myself stumbling over them in other people's code far too often for comfort, where they are obviously unaware that they're not thread-safe. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <anthony@interlink.com.au> It's never too late to have a happy childhood.