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Thu Mar 1 02:29:11 CET 2007 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2007-March/071428.html

On 2/28/07, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> Adam Olsen wrote:
>
> > It sounds like we should always copy the exception given to raise,
>
> I don't like that either, for all the reasons that
> make it infeasible to copy an arbitrary object in a
> general way.

Exceptions aren't arbitrary objects though.  The requirement that they
inherit from BaseException is specifically to create a common
interface.  Copying would be an extension of that interface.

I believe calling copy.copy() would be sufficient.

-- 
Adam Olsen, aka Rhamphoryncus

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