Irit Katriel added the comment:
In issue 26389 the api was changed so that now format_exception(exc) works.
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Irit Katriel added the comment:
As of 3.5 there is this option:
traceback.TracebackException.from_exception(exc).format()
Perhaps that can be mentioned in the doc for traceback.format_exception().
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New submission from R. David Murray rdmur...@bitdance.com:
Suppose you have an exception object acquired from somewhere. The exception is
no longer active on the stack. Now you want to format the exception like
format_exception would (to log it, perhaps). To do this you apparently need to
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc amaur...@gmail.com added the comment:
Why not reuse format_exception(exc)?
in 2.7 you could write raise type, value, traceback, or raise value.
I suggest that traceback.format_exception take the same route, and accept both
(type, value, traceback) and (value).
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R. David Murray rdmur...@bitdance.com added the comment:
Sounds OK to me, though I am worried others will think that kind of variable
signature (where the type of the first argument depends on the number of
arguments passed) is bad.
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Changes by Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis arfrever@gmail.com:
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