The value exceptions are raised with (odd behaviour?)

[Ola Natvig]

When raising an exception with a value for instance an integer you 
assume that when catching the exception the value can be compared with 
other integers. That is not what happens.

try:
    raise Exception, 12
except Exception, number:
    print number == 12
# False
This is because the number variable is a exception instance and not an 
integer.

I wonder if I'm the only one which find this behavior odd, and if anyone 
knows if there is a way to retrieve the original initialization value of 
the exception.

ola
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