In article <mailman.2202.1277677180.32709.python-l...@python.org>, Thomas Jollans <tho...@jollans.com> wrote: > >(3) Why not > >try: > import x > import y > import z >except ImportError as exc: > display_error_properly(exc) > raise exc
Why not? Because that destroys the original traceback. Inside an except clause, you should almost always use a bare raise. (I'm not absolutely certain that the new "as" subclause doesn't fix the problem, but why not stick with an idiom guaranteed to work in all versions of Python.) -- Aahz (a...@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "If you don't know what your program is supposed to do, you'd better not start writing it." --Dijkstra -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
