[New-bugs-announce] [issue45607] Make it possible to enrich an exception's error message

[Irit Katriel]

New submission from Irit Katriel <iritkatriel at gmail.com>:

The requirement comes from Hypothesis, see
https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/28569#discussion_r730338369

It is necessary there to add a note to an exception describing which test case it comes from. The note should be printed by __str__ of this exception. 


class Explanation(Exception):
    __module__ = "builtins"
    def __str__(self) -> str:
        return f"\n{self.args[0]}"

try:
    why = "Failed!"
    raise AssertionError(why)
except Exception as e:
    msg = "    You can reproduce this error by ...\n    ..."
    raise Explanation(msg) from e

    # Ideally something more like:
    e.__note__ = msg
    raise

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components: Interpreter Core
messages: 404999
nosy: iritkatriel
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Make it possible to enrich an exception's error message
type: enhancement

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