[Python-3000] Pre-peps on raise and except changes (was: Warning for 2.6 and greater)

[Guido van Rossum]

On 2/9/07, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> On 2/9/07, Collin Winter <collinw at gmail.com> wrote:
> > sys.exc_info() will be kept, while the sys.exc_{type,value,traceback}
> > attributes will be dropped.
>
> I understand why, but that doesn't make me uncomfortable with keeping

(of course I means "doesn't make me *comfortable*")

> it. Maybe in "3.0 compatibility mode" 2.6 could attach tracebacks to
> exception objects so we could be weened off it in 2.6?
>
> > As an aside, should sys.exc_clear() be added to the to-drop list? Is
> > there still a need for it given Python 3's exception cleanup
> > semantics?
>
> I don't think so -- AFAIK the same use case is handled well enough by
> the cleanup semantics of the except clause.
>
> --
> --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
>


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