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

[John J Lee]

On Thu, 13 Apr 2006, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote:

> Tim Peters wrote:
>>> I'm not the one to decide, but at some time the traceback module should be
>>> rewritten to match the interpreter behavior.
>>
>> No argument from me about that.
>
> I also think the traceback module should be corrected, and the test
> cases updated, despite the objections that it may break other people's
> doctest test cases.

Assuming this is fixed in 2.5 final, is there some way to write doctests 
that work on both 2.4 and 2.5?  If not, should something like 
doctest.IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL be added -- say IGNORE_EXCEPTION_MODULE?


John