Disable exception chaining in python 3
Simple Answer
try: print(10/0)except ZeroDivisionError as e: raise AssertionError(str(e)) from None
However, you probably actually want:
try: print(10/0)except ZeroDivisionError as e: raise AssertionError(str(e)) from e
Explanation
__cause__
Implicit exception chaining happens through __context__
when there isn't an explicit cause exception set.
Explicit exception chaining works through __cause__
so if you set __cause__
to the exception itself, it should stop the chaining. If __cause__
is set, Python will suppress the implicit message.
try: print(10/0)except ZeroDivisionError as e: exc = AssertionError(str(e)) exc.__cause__ = exc raise exc
raise from
We can use "raise from" to do the same thing:
try: print(10/0)except ZeroDivisionError as e: exc = AssertionError(str(e)) raise exc from exc
None __cause__
Setting __cause__
to None
actually does the same thing:
try: print(10/0)except ZeroDivisionError as e: exc = AssertionError(str(e)) exc.__cause__ = None raise exc
raise from None
So that brings us to the most elegant way to do this which is to raise from None
:
try: print(10/0)except ZeroDivisionError as e: raise AssertionError(str(e)) from None
But I would argue that you usually want to explicitly raise your exception from the cause exception so the traceback is preserved:
try: print(10/0)except ZeroDivisionError as e: raise AssertionError(str(e)) from e
This will give us a slightly different message that states that the first exception was the direct cause of the second:
Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 2, in <module>ZeroDivisionError: division by zeroThe above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 4, in <module>AssertionError: division by zero