sys.excepthook not working

[Bernhard Herzog]

"Larry Bates" <lbates at swamisoft.com> writes:

> I have tried unsuccessfully to set my own function to handle uncaught
> exceptions.
> Below is a short test program that doesn't work as expected:
> 
> import sys
> def Myexcepthook(type, value, traceback):
>     print "in Myexcepthook"
>     import traceback

This import overwrites the parameter traceback so that you get the
attribute error:

[...]
>   File "C:\Python22\Lib\traceback.py", line 94, in extract_tb
>     f = tb.tb_frame
> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'tb_frame'

tb is to be the traceback module not the traceback parameter originally
passed to Myexcepthook.

   Bernhard

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