[Python-Dev] RE: PEP-317

Greg Ewing greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Thu, 12 Jun 2003 16:45:03 +1200 (NZST)


> Except... what you're expecting to be a traceback here isn't.  It's
> the exception instance.

Oops, you're right. I'm not thinking straight today.

Looks like we need *another* keyword in there:

  except KeyError, IndexError as e:
    ...

And, of course, if we're storing the traceback as an attribute of the
exception, we don't need a keyword for catching it at all.

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