Robert Collins added the comment: I can certainly write the reporter glue to work with either a string or a full reference. Note that the existing late-reporting glue captures the import error into a string, and then raises an exception containing that string - so what I've done is consistent with that.
As for why the original code is like that - well I've had plenty of bad experiences with memory loops due to objects held in stack frames of exceptions, I don't like to keep long lived references to them, and I wager Michael has had the same experience. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue19746> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
