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Author	rbcollins
Recipients	michael.foord, r.david.murray, rbcollins, vstinner
Date	2014-09-23.00:29:04
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Message-id	<[email protected]>
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I can certainly write the reporter glue to work with either a string or a full reference. Note that the existing late-reporting glue captures the import error into a string, and then raises an exception containing that string - so what I've done is consistent with that. As for why the original code is like that - well I've had plenty of bad experiences with memory loops due to objects held in stack frames of exceptions, I don't like to keep long lived references to them, and I wager Michael has had the same experience.

I can certainly write the reporter glue to work with either a string or a full reference. Note that the existing late-reporting glue captures the import error into a string, and then raises an exception containing that string - so what I've done is consistent with that.

As for why the original code is like that - well I've had plenty of bad experiences with memory loops due to objects held in stack frames of exceptions, I don't like to keep long lived references to them, and I wager Michael has had the same experience.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2014-09-23 00:29:05	rbcollins	set	recipients: + rbcollins, vstinner, r.david.murray, michael.foord
2014-09-23 00:29:05	rbcollins	set	messageid: <[email protected]>
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