Bryan wrote: > hi, > > i would like to save an exception and reraise it at a later time. > > > something similar to this: > > exception = None > def foo(): > try: > 1/0 > except Exception, e: > exception = e > > if exception: raise exception > > > i have a need to do this because in my example foo is a callback from c code > which was originally called from python and i can't modify the c code. > with the above code, i'm able to successfully raise the exception, but the > line number of the exception is at the place of the explicit raise instead > of the where the exception originally occurred. is there anyway to fix > this? > You can capture the trace at the time the original exception is raised, if that would help? I think the traceback module lets you do that.
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