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

[Armin Rigo]

Hello,

Sorry, I only replied to the SF tracker.  The language specs are vague but a
very precise explanation for the "currently active exception" is given in the
library reference for sys.get_info().  The language spec can be made precise
just by copying or pointing to that text.

In other words, if we make explicit the implicit assumption that a bare
'raise' is indeed intended equivalent to

   exc, val, tb = sys.exc_info()
   raise exc, val, tb

then the docs are already precise enough and CPython really implements that.


A bientôt,

Armin.