[Python-Dev] Idea for avoiding exception masking

[Walter Dörwald]

Brett Cannon wrote:

> [Guido van Rossum]
> 
>>Was a conclusion reached in this thread?  It seems a good idea.
> 
> Unless I overlooked something when I did the summary for this thread,
> nope.  I think Ping's idea was viewed as good and that is as far as it
> got.

We briefly discussed consequences for the C API and exception
normalization.

I looked through the source, and on first glance this seems to
require more than just a little mindless patch (at least with
my knowledge ;))

Bye,
    Walter Dörwald