[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r45321 - in python/trunk: Lib/test/test_traceback.py Lib/traceback.py Misc/NEWS

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 09:14 PM 4/12/2006 -0400, Tim Peters wrote:
>The 2.4 backport of this patch should be reverted, since it changes
>visible behavior (for example, all the 2.4 branch buildbot runs also
>fail now).
>
>Fine by me if we change the failing tests on the trunk to pass (noting
>that should have been done before checking in).

It's not fine by me if the reason for the failure is that doctests trapping 
specific exceptions no longer work with the patch.

If that's the case, the patch should be reverted entirely, absent any 
compelling reasoning for breaking *everyone else's* doctests in 2.5.