David Bolen wrote: > "andrew cooke" <[email protected]> writes: > >> However, when printed via format_exc(), this new exception still has the old exception attached via the mechanism described at >> http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3134/ (this is Python 3.0). > > If you're in control of the format_exc() call, I think the new chain keyword parameter can disable this and restore the old behavior. > > If you're not in control of the traceback display, I'm not sure there's an easy way to prevent it, given that displaying chained exceptions is the default mode.
Yeah, that's the impression I got too. Just in case it wasn't clear, I'd like the chaining not to exist at all in this case), so that it doesn't appear in format_exc outside my control. Thanks, Andrew -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
