Re: [Zope-dev] Pointless exception re-raising in DA.py

On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 10:23:27AM +0000, Chris Withers wrote:

Dieter Maurer wrote:

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try: DB__=dbc() except: exc_type, exc_value, trc = sys.exc_info() raise DatabaseError('%s is not connected to a database' % self.id, exc_type, exc_value), trc

I didn't know you could re-raise a traceback like this... where's tha tsyntax documented?

In the language reference: http://www.python.org/doc/current/ref/raise.html See also the sys.exc_info docs in the library reference: http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-sys.html#l2h-331 -Andrew.