Guido van Rossum added the comment: The only reasonable place to break the cycle seems to be the frame containing the set_exception() call -- but that could be app code.
Looking again at what the patch actually does I think it is too big a hammer anyway -- it would break debugging tools that preserve tracebacks and inspect the frames later. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue20032> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com