Terry J. Reedy added the comment: The same issue arises when an exception is raised during the __init__ execution, rather than in the call argument match phase, and the exception is caught.
class C(): def __init__(self): self.a = self.b def __del__(self): self.a try: C() except AttributeError): pass # print same message as before about self.a in __del__ What is different is that if the exception raised within __init__ is not caught, only the normal traceback is printed. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue12085> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com