[Python-Dev] Re-raise in absence of an "active" exception

[Jeremy Hylton]

On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 01:22, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote:
> "If no exception is active in the current scope, an exception is raised 
> indicating this error."
> 
> "This" error probably being "no active exception", not "exception must
> not be NoneType".

We can determine statically whether an exception would active in the
current scope, right?  If the raise does not occur within an except
handler, then there is no active exception in the current scope.  I
think it should be a SyntaxError.

Jeremy