[Python-Dev] PEP 344: Exception Chaining and Embedded Tracebacks

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu May 19 06:46:49 CEST 2005


Guido van Rossum wrote:
> Here's another rule-of-thumb: when the VM and the user *share* the
> attribute space of an object, the VM uses system attributes; the VM
> uses plain attributes for objects that it owns completely (like code
> objects, frames and so on, which rarely figure user code except for
> the explicit purpose of introspection). So I think the PEP should
> continue to use __traceback__ etc.

I was just thinking the same thing myself!

(Does Guido have a telepathy machine now, as well
as a time machine?)

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