[Python-Dev] Exception masking/chaining

[Guido van Rossum]

> >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?

I very much doubt that this worked in any version of Python 2.2 or
later.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)