On Mon, May 16, 2005, Ka-Ping Yee wrote: > > This PEP is a concrete proposal for exception chaining, to follow > up on its mention here on Python-Dev last week as well as earlier > discussions in the past year or two. > > http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0344.html > > I've tried to summarize the applications for chaining mentioned in > these discussions, survey what's available in other languages, and > come up with a precise specification. > > PEP 344 proposes three standard attributes on traceback objects: > > __context__ for implicit chaining (an unexpected exception > occurred during 'except' or 'finally' processing) > > __cause__ for explicit chaining (intentional translation or > augmenting of exceptions, set by "raise EXC from CAUSE") > > __traceback__ to point to the traceback > > Hope this is useful. I'd like your feedback. Thanks!
I'll comment here in hopes of staving off responses from multiple people: I don't think these should be double-underscore attributes. The currently undocumented ``args`` attribute isn't double-underscore, and I think that's precedent to be followed. -- Aahz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "And if that makes me an elitist...I couldn't be happier." --JMS _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
