Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk>: > On 30/01/2015 06:16, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: >> How about: >> >> ============================== >> try: >> do_interesting_stuff() >> except ValueError: >> try: >> log_it() >> except: >> pass >> raise >> ============================== >> >> Surprisingly this variant could raise an unexpected exception: >> >> ============================== >> try: >> do_interesting_stuff() >> except ValueError: >> try: >> log_it() >> finally: >> raise >> ============================== >> >> A Python bug? > > It depends on the Python version that you're running - I think!!! See > https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3134/
TL;DR My Python did do exception chaining, but the problem is the surface exception changes, which could throw off the whole error recovery. So I'm thinking I might have found a valid use case for the "diabolical antipattern." Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
