In `logging.config.DictConfigurator.configure`, there are exceptions that are caught and then replaced with `ValueError` exceptions. I think you should use the `raise x from y` syntax so that the original tracebacks will be preserved. (I'm debugging such an exception now and it's quite frustrating that I'm not seeing the full traceback of the original exception.)

I now see similar raises that could use a `from` in other places in this  module, so I'd suggest going over the module and putting `from`s all over the place.

This is marked as relevant to Python 3.7, so I ran a test script using the latest Python sources:

import logging
import logging.config
import sys

def main():
    config = {
        'version': 1,
        'formatters': {
            'default': {
                '()': 'foo',
            },
        }
    }
    logging.config.dictConfig(config)


if __name__ == '__main__':
    sys.exit(main())

The exception printouts with/without "raise ... from" are shown in this Gist: 

https://gist.github.com/vsajip/a17b51695bbe16bd3c9e156405388e57

I can't see much difference in terms of figuring out where the exception came from. The only substantial difference is one line "During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:" with another "The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:".

You're right Vinay: I missed that first traceback because I wasn't running code in the console, I was running it with a debugger. (I'll ask my debugger vendor to maybe include these extra tracebacks.)

But in any case, I think that the correct way to raise would be with `from`, don't you think? (It's also more likely that debugger vendor would include these tracebacks rather than the "During handling" traceback.

Thanks for the patch sreyas! Maybe we should also take this opportunity to remove the string formatting from the exception that shows the name of the original exception? Because when you think about it, it's just a poor man's `raise from`.

Patch as posted will not work (contains a syntax error), and was thus never tested. Never mind, I will address this soon.

New changeset 69bf09bf4952 by Vinay Sajip in branch 'default':
Closes #28335: used 'raise from' in logging configuration code.
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/69bf09bf4952

New changeset 8c005be54305 by Vinay Sajip in branch 'default':
Issue #28335: made minor improvement to implementation.
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/8c005be54305

Thanks for the quick fix Vinay!