On 2/9/07, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2/9/07, Collin Winter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > sys.exc_info() will be kept, while the sys.exc_{type,value,traceback}
> > attributes will be dropped.
>
> I understand why, but that doesn't make me uncomfortable with keeping(of course I means "doesn't make me *comfortable*") > it. Maybe in "3.0 compatibility mode" 2.6 could attach tracebacks to > exception objects so we could be weened off it in 2.6? > > > As an aside, should sys.exc_clear() be added to the to-drop list? Is > > there still a need for it given Python 3's exception cleanup > > semantics? > > I don't think so -- AFAIK the same use case is handled well enough by > the cleanup semantics of the except clause. > > -- > --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) > -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
