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

[Greg Ewing]

Tim Peters wrote:

> A less-desirable (IMO) alternative is to change the Python core to
> display bare (non-dotted) exception names when it produces a
> traceback.

Much less desirable, considering that there are modules
which define an exception just called "error" on the
assumption that you're going to see the module name
as well.

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