From 763557eac06ba60d7c5133e4f80df8870d8f917e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: csabella Date: Sat, 20 May 2017 02:48:28 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] bpo-17188: DOC: Document 'from None' in raise statement (#1671) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Original patch by Dennis Mårtensson. --- Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++-- Misc/ACKS | 1 + 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst b/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst index 63d0ea5e77..2429f11fd1 100644 --- a/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst +++ b/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst @@ -587,7 +587,7 @@ printed:: ... Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 2, in - ZeroDivisionError: int division or modulo by zero + ZeroDivisionError: division by zero The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception: @@ -606,7 +606,7 @@ attached as the new exception's :attr:`__context__` attribute:: ... Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 2, in - ZeroDivisionError: int division or modulo by zero + ZeroDivisionError: division by zero During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: @@ -614,9 +614,27 @@ attached as the new exception's :attr:`__context__` attribute:: File "", line 4, in RuntimeError: Something bad happened +Exception chaining can be explicitly suppressed by specifying :const:`None` in +the ``from`` clause:: + + >>> try: + ... print(1 / 0) + ... except: + ... raise RuntimeError("Something bad happened") from None + ... + Traceback (most recent call last): + File "", line 4, in + RuntimeError: Something bad happened + Additional information on exceptions can be found in section :ref:`exceptions`, and information about handling exceptions is in section :ref:`try`. +.. versionchanged:: 3.3 + :const:`None` is now permitted as ``Y`` in ``raise X from Y`` + +.. versionadded:: 3.3 + The ``__suppress_context__`` attribute to suppress automatic display of the + exception context .. _break: diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS index 246a50be00..d00fa79c60 100644 --- a/Misc/ACKS +++ b/Misc/ACKS @@ -965,6 +965,7 @@ David Marek Doug Marien Sven Marnach Alex Martelli +Dennis Mårtensson Anthony Martin Owen Martin Sidney San Martín -- 2.40.0