[Python-Dev] Exception masking/chaining

[Anthony Baxter]

>>> Guido van Rossum wrote
> I think (1) and (3) aren't absolutely necessary -- strings and classic
> classes would simply not have the traceback attribute.  For backwards
> compatibility it could still be kept separate in (the per-thread
> equivalent of) sys.exc_traceback, 

As an aside, is it planned that sys.exc_traceback,type and value will
start emitting DeprecationWarnings any time soon? I find myself stumbling 
over them in other people's code far too often for comfort, where they 
are obviously unaware that they're not thread-safe. 

Anthony
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