R. Bernstein rocky at panix.com
Fri Dec 12 23:14:53 EST 2008

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"Gabriel Genellina" <gagsl-py2 at yahoo.com.ar> writes:
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> No, last_traceback is the last *printed* traceback in the interactive
> interpreter. 

Well more precisely the traceback that is passed to sys.excepthook()
when an unhandled exception occcurs, since the hook that might not
decide to print anything ;-)

> Use the third element in sys.exc_info() instead:

Hmm...  I'm not sure what I was thinking when I read that way back
when, but you are correct and caught a bug in my code. I really do
need to do better about writing tests. Maybe next
incarnation... Thanks.

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