Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 344: Explicit vs. Implicit Chaining

2005-05-23 Thread Michael Chermside
James Knight writes: > I still don't see why people think the python interpreter should be > automatically providing __context__. To me it seems like it'll just > clutter things up for no good reason. If you really want the other > exception, you can access it via the local variable in the frame >

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 344: Explicit vs. Implicit Chaining

2005-05-21 Thread Ka-Ping Yee
On Sat, 21 May 2005, James Y Knight wrote: > On May 20, 2005, at 6:37 PM, Phillip J. Eby wrote: > > This only helps if you can get to a debugger. What if you're > > reading your web server's error log? > > Then you're in trouble anyways because you need the contents of some > local to figure out w

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 344: Explicit vs. Implicit Chaining

2005-05-21 Thread James Y Knight
On May 20, 2005, at 6:37 PM, Phillip J. Eby wrote: > This only helps if you can get to a debugger. What if you're > reading your web server's error log? Then you're in trouble anyways because you need the contents of some local to figure out what's going on, also. James _

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 344: Explicit vs. Implicit Chaining

2005-05-20 Thread James Y Knight
On May 20, 2005, at 4:31 AM, Ka-Ping Yee wrote: > Guido van Rossum wrote: > >> Do we really need both __context__ and __cause__? >> > > Well, it depends whose needs we're trying to meet. > > If we want to satisfy those who have been asking for chaining > of unexpected secondary exceptions, then w

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 344: Explicit vs. Implicit Chaining

2005-05-20 Thread Guido van Rossum
[Guido van Rossum] > > Do we really need both __context__ and __cause__? [Ka-Ping Yee] > Well, it depends whose needs we're trying to meet. > > If we want to satisfy those who have been asking for chaining > of unexpected secondary exceptions, then we have to provide that > on some attribute. >