[Python-Dev] Exception masking/chaining

[Michael Hudson]

"Phillip J. Eby" <pje@telecommunity.com> writes:

> At 01:37 PM 6/12/03 -0400, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>
>>The big problem is that it would require a major rewrite of the sys
>>module, wouldn't it?
>
> Under 2.2 this would be easy because you could just do 'sys.__class__
> = MyNewSysClass'.  Can you still do that in 2.3 as long as
> 'MyNewSysClass' is a non-heap type with a compatible layout?

No.

Cheers,
M.

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