[Python-Dev] Exception masking/chaining

[Michael Hudson]

Greg Ewing <greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz> writes:

> Guido:
>
>> More globals of course defeat the purpose (one of the reasons for
>> putting the traceback in the exception is to get rid of
>> sys.exc_traceback).
>
> I think the idea was that this would be a C-level global,
> not a Python one (i.e. part of the existing group of
> C variables representing the current exception state).

Those are fields in the thread state, not globals, IIRC.

Cheers,
M>

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