saving an exception

[Steve Holden]

Bryan wrote:
> hi,
> 
> i would like to save an exception and reraise it at a later time.
> 
> 
> something similar to this:
> 
> exception = None
> def foo():
>     try:
>         1/0 
>     except Exception, e:
>         exception = e
> 
> if exception: raise exception
> 
> 
> i have a need to do this because in my example foo is a callback from c code
> which was originally called from python and i can't modify the c code. 
> with the above code, i'm able to successfully raise the exception, but the
> line number of the exception is at the place of the explicit raise instead
> of the where the exception originally occurred.  is there anyway to fix
> this?
> 
You can capture the trace at the time the original exception is raised, 
if that would help? I think the traceback module lets you do that.

regards
  Steve
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