On Sat, Feb 8, 2020 at 4:51 AM Shai Berger <s...@platonix.com> wrote:
> To summarize, I am suggesting that
>
>         except ExceptionType:
>                 raise as OtherException(...)
>
> Have, more-or-less, the semantics of Python 2's:
>
>         except ExceptionType:
>                 traceback = sys.exc_info()[2]
>                 raise OtherException, OtherException(...), traceback
>

-1. That would mean that a line of code could phantom-raise an
exception that it has no idea even exists. I'd much rather it be
defined with semantics based on existing exception chaining (which is
what Ram's original proposal was).

ChrisA
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