[Python-Dev] Re: PEP-317

[Steven Taschuk]

Quoth Walter Dörwald:
> Steven Taschuk wrote:
> > [...]
> > I would also like the traceback to be an attribute of the
> > exception object (circular references be damned!), specified by
> > optional keyword argument to Exception.__init__.  [...]
> 
> Wouldn't it make more sense to associate the traceback with the
> exception instance when the exception is raised, not when the
> exception is instantiated? As long as the exception isn't raised
> it's just a normal object without a traceback attached.

Absolutely; my notion to use __init__ above actually makes no
sense, I subsequently realized.  Consider it withdrawn.

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