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Exception traceback is hidden if not re-raised immediately


A blank raise raises the last exception.

# need to re-raise err so caller can do its own handlingif err:    raise

If you use raise something Python has no way of knowing if something was an exception just caught before, or a new exception with a new stack trace. That's why there is the blank raise that preserves the stack trace.

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It is possible to modify and rethrow an exception:

If no expressions are present, raise re-raises the last exception that was active in the current scope. If no exception is active in the current scope, a TypeError exception is raised indicating that this is an error (if running under IDLE, a Queue.Empty exception is raised instead).

Otherwise, raise evaluates the expressions to get three objects, using None as the value of omitted expressions. The first two objects are used to determine the type and value of the exception.

If a third object is present and not None, it must be a traceback object (see section The standard type hierarchy), and it is substituted instead of the current location as the place where the exception occurred. If the third object is present and not a traceback object or None, a TypeError exception is raised.

The three-expression form of raise is useful to re-raise an exception transparently in an except clause, but raise with no expressions should be preferred if the exception to be re-raised was the most recently active exception in the current scope.

So if you want to modify the exception and rethrow it, you can do this:

try:    buggy_code_which_throws_exception()except Exception as e:    raise Exception, "The code is buggy: %s" % e, sys.exc_info()[2]


You can get a lot of information about the exception via the sys.exc_info() along with the traceback module

try the following extension to your code.

import sysimport tracebackdef func1():    func2()def func2():    raise Exception('test error')def main():    try:        func1()    except:        exc_type, exc_value, exc_traceback = sys.exc_info()        # Do your verification using exc_value and exc_traceback        print "*** print_exception:"        traceback.print_exception(exc_type, exc_value, exc_traceback,                                  limit=3, file=sys.stdout)if __name__ == '__main__':    main()

This would print, similar to what you wanted.

*** print_exception:Traceback (most recent call last):  File "err_test.py", line 14, in main    func1()  File "err_test.py", line 5, in func1    func2()  File "err_test.py", line 8, in func2    raise Exception('test error')Exception: test error