[Python-3000] Pre-peps on raise and except changes

[Guido van Rossum]

Why don't you want it to mutate the instance?

On 2/10/07, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Collin Winter wrote:
> > I think so. I've already got language ready for the section on using
> > BaseException.with_traceback() in the 2->3 raise translations, and
> > I'll work up additional language for the transition plan sometime this
> > weekend.
>
> If with_traceback() is an instance method, does it mutate the existing
> exception or create a new one?
>
> To avoid any confusion, perhaps it should instead be a class method
> equivalent to the following:
>
>    @classmethod
>    def with_traceback(*args, **kwds):
>       cls = args[0]
>       tb = args[1]
>       args = args[2:]
>       exc = cls(*args, **kwds)
>       exc.__traceback__ = tb
>       return exc
>
> Usage would look like:
>
>    raise E.with_traceback(T, V)
>
>
> Cheers,
> Nick.
>
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> Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
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>


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