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Author	ezio.melotti
Recipients	ezio.melotti, scoder
Date	2010-03-13.07:39:28
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Message-id	<1268465970.02.0.687006248779.issue8130@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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This is a not a bug and it's documented: http://docs.python.org/py3k/reference/compound_stmts.html#the-try-statement The solution is to assign the value to another variable: >>> try: raise ValueError ... except ValueError as e: exc = e ... >>> exc ValueError() >>> e Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> NameError: name 'e' is not defined

This is a not a bug and it's documented: http://docs.python.org/py3k/reference/compound_stmts.html#the-try-statement

The solution is to assign the value to another variable:
>>> try: raise ValueError
... except ValueError as e: exc = e
...
>>> exc
ValueError()
>>> e
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
NameError: name 'e' is not defined

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Date	User	Action	Args
2010-03-13 07:39:30	ezio.melotti	set	recipients: + ezio.melotti, scoder
2010-03-13 07:39:30	ezio.melotti	set	messageid: <1268465970.02.0.687006248779.issue8130@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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2010-03-13 07:39:28	ezio.melotti	create