Re-throwing an exception without loosing the stack trace

[Skip Montanaro]

    Clark> How do I catch and then re-throw an exception without loosing the
    Clark> information about the stack trace?  I've looked around alot and
    Clark> don't see the "obvious" answer.

Assuming you mean something like

    try:
        bunch
        of
        stuff
        that
        might
        barf
    except:
        clean
        up
        database
        turds
        then
        reraise

when you are finished cleaning up you can just execute the raise statement
with no arguments.  Better might be this:

    try:
        bunch
        of
        stuff
        that
        might
        barf
    finally:
        clean
        up
        database
        turds        

That way the database stuff gets cleaned up no matter what happened.

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Skip Montanaro (skip at pobox.com - http://www.mojam.com/)