Re-raising exceptions with a different type and message, preserving existing information

[Aahz]

In article <87ljqnpo6o.fsf at benfinney.id.au>,
Ben Finney  <ben+python at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
>
>What I need is to “wrap” the exception caught such that it has a
>different type and message. But I don't want to lose the existing
>type, message, and stack trace; that's all useful information for
>someone trying to debug the problem.
>
>Python's PEP 3134 “Exception Chaining and Embedded Tracebacks”
>discusses a change accepted in Python 3.0 for “chaining” exception
>objects, to indicate that a new exception was raised during the
>handling of an existing exception.
>
>What I'm trying to do is related: I need it working in earlier Python
>versions, and I need it not for chaining, but only for polymorphism.
>What is the right way to do this?

The same way that 3.0 does it, IMO.
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characters are also strings is the reason we have problems, but characters 
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