Bug#281038: Java exception and import * in Jython 2.1

[Nicolas Duboc]

    Hi,

 I'm investigating an old bug registered against the Debian package of
Jython : http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=281038

 While searching on the web for similar problems I found this thread :
   http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2004-August/232592.html
I think the root problem may be the same. But it does not contain any
answer.

 I think I have reduced the problem to a problem with "import *" :

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import java

java.lang.Class.forName('org.postgresql.Driver')

try:
    con= java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection('jdbc:postgresql:skdb', 'admin', 
'')
    # raise an SQLException because I have no postgres server
except java.sql.SQLException, e:
    print 'Caught SQLException'
    print 'Class:', e.getClass().getName()
    print 'Base class:', e.getClass().getSuperclass().getName()
else:
    print 'UnCaught'
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On my Debian testing box, with Jython 2.1, the Postgres java driver and
java1.5.0_06 (Debian package of Sun JDK), this code prints :

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Caught SQLException
Class: org.postgresql.util.PSQLException
Base class: java.sql.SQLException
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Now consider this code :

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from java.lang import Class
from java.lang import Exception as JavaException

from java.sql import *


Class.forName('org.postgresql.Driver')

try:
    con= DriverManager.getConnection('jdbc:postgresql:skdb', 'admin', '')
    # raise an SQLException because I have no postgres server
except SQLException, e:
    print 'Caught SQLException'
    print 'Class:', e.getClass().getName()
    print 'Base class:', e.getClass().getSuperclass().getName()
except JavaException, e:
    print 'Caught JavaException'
    print 'Class:', e.getClass().getName()
    print 'Base class:', e.getClass().getSuperclass().getName()
    print 'Base base class:', 
e.getClass().getSuperclass().getSuperclass().getName()
else:
    print 'UnCaught'
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it prints :

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Caught JavaException
Class: org.postgresql.util.PSQLException
Base class: java.sql.SQLException
Base base class: java.lang.Exception
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  I know the "import *" is discouraged with Jython. But I wondered if
this precise limitation is known.

  Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Duboc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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