On Sun, 24 Oct 2010 10:48:23 +0200 "Martin v. Loewis" <mar...@v.loewis.de> wrote: > > You may now wonder whether it is possible to set __context__ to None > somehow. See PEP 3134: > > Open Issue: Suppressing Context > > As written, this PEP makes it impossible to suppress '__context__', > since setting exc.__context__ to None in an 'except' or 'finally' > clause will only result in it being set again when exc is raised.
It is not easily discoverable, but it is possible to suppress __context__ by using a bare re-raise afterwards: >>> try: ... try: 1/0 ... except ZeroDivisionError: raise KeyError ... except BaseException as e: ... e.__context__ = None ... raise ... Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 3, in <module> KeyError Regards Antoine. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
