[Python-Dev] peps: New PEP 490: Chain exceptions at C level

[Serhiy Storchaka]

On 26.03.15 10:08, victor.stinner wrote:
> https://hg.python.org/peps/rev/7daf3bfd9586
> changeset:   5741:7daf3bfd9586
> user:        Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com>
> date:        Thu Mar 26 09:08:08 2015 +0100
> summary:
>    New PEP 490: Chain exceptions at C level

> +Python 3.5 introduces a new private ``_PyErr_ChainExceptions()`` function which
> +is enough to chain manually exceptions.

It also was added in Python 3.4.3.

I meditar about adding _PyErr_ReplaceException() in 2.7 for simpler 
backporting patches from 3.x.

> +Functions like ``PyErr_SetString()`` don't chain automatically exceptions. To
> +make usage of ``_PyErr_ChainExceptions()`` easier, new functions are added:
> +
> +* PyErr_SetStringChain(exc_type, message)
> +* PyErr_FormatChaine(exc_type, format, ...)

Typo.

> +* PyErr_SetNoneChain(exc_type)
> +* PyErr_SetObjectChain(exc_type, exc_value)

I would first make these functions private, as _PyErr_ChainExceptions(). 
After proofing their usefulness in the stdlib, they can be made public.