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

[Andrew Svetlov]

I think setting context in exception constructor would be fine.

On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 1:36 PM, Victor Stinner
<victor.stinner at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2015-03-26 11:52 GMT+01:00 Andrew Svetlov <andrew.svetlov at gmail.com>:
>> There is another issue: exception chain is not set up on exception
>> creation in python code, only on throwing.
>
> I'm not suprised of that.
>
>> Thus I have to assign `__context__` and `__cause__` attributes
>> manually if I want to call `future.set_exception(exc)` instead of
>> `raise exc`.
>
> Do you mean that we need an helper to make this task even simpler? Or
> do you suggest to set them automatically in the constructor?
>
> Victor



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Thanks,
Andrew Svetlov