PEP 785: address comments and partially revise proposal #4568
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iritkatriel reviewed Sep 17, 2025
| ``first.__context__ = group`` as a side effect. This discards the original | ||
| In this case, the implicit ``exc.__context__ = group`` discards the original | ||
| context of the error, which may contain crucial information to understand why | ||
| the exception was raised. In many production apps it also causes tracebacks |
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leaf_exceptions() loses the __context__ of all ExceptionGroups on the path from the leaf to the root. Here you're fixing it only for the last __context__, but that's not enough.
| with the ``.split()`` and ``.subgroup()`` methods, and mentioning | ||
| ``.preserve_context()`` as an advanced option to address specific pain points. | ||
| with the ``.split()`` and ``.subgroup()`` methods, emphasizing a preference | ||
| for the latter. |
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Why do we need leaf_exceptions()? What can that do that .split() and .subgroup() cannot?
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Thanks in particular to @.iritkatriel for great feedback on Discourse, and @.gpshead for discussions over lunch.
This update makes a moderate change to the proposed
BaseExceptionGroup.leaf_exceptions()method, to return a list of(exc, traceback)tuples rather than accepting a boolean flag to call.with_traceback()for the user, and to specify that each sub-exception must be processed only once (in rare cases where a group is not tree-structured).The larger change is to scrap my proposed
BaseException.preserve_context()method: since I'd only (but always) recommend using it in the specific case of re-raising part of the exception group rendered by anexcept*statement, I now propose that we make a small language change to 'do the right thing' there unconditionally.Discuss thread here.
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