"Phillip J. Eby" <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote in message news:5.1.1.6.0.20070122213225.04252ac8 at sparrow.telecommunity.com... | Um, you're not taking 2.6 into consideration here. Remember that there has | to be a way to spell all these APIs in 2.6 that will still work in 3.0. | IMO, this seems sufficient reason to keep sys.exc_info() around, since | there *has* to be some way to access the current exception and traceback, | that exists in *both* 2.6 and 3.0. >From what I understand of Guido's recent comments on the 2.6 list, 'has to be' is a bit strong. Pehaps he will 'have to' clarify. tjr