[New-bugs-announce] [issue7563] yield in except clause causes exception context to be lost

[Ronnie Maor]

New submission from Ronnie Maor <ronnie.maor at gmail.com>:

Python 2.6.2 (r262:71605, Apr 14 2009, 22:40:02) [MSC v.1500 32 bit 
(Intel)] on win32
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>>> def coroutine():
...     try:
...             raise Exception('bla')
...     except:
...             yield 'foo'
...             raise
...
>>> for _ in coroutine():
...     pass
...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "<stdin>", line 6, in coroutine
TypeError: exceptions must be classes or instances, not NoneType

Seems that yielding in the except clause makes python forget the current 
exception, so a bar "raise" statement raises None, instead of the 
original exception.
changing except to except Exception,e: and raise to raise e throws the 
original exception, but then the original stack trace is lost.

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components: Interpreter Core
messages: 96812
nosy: ronniemaor
severity: normal
status: open
title: yield in except clause causes exception context to be lost
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.6

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