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Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 10:10:45 -0700
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On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 6:42 AM, Vlad Didenko <vdidenko@getcollc.com> wrote=
:
> Colleagues,
> Per documentation
> at=C2=A0http://docs.python.org/py3k/library/sys.html#sys.tracebacklimit=
=C2=A0:
> =C2=A0=C2=A0 =C2=A0 When [sys.tracebacklimit]=C2=A0set to 0 or less, all =
traceback information
> is suppressed and only the exception type and value are printed
> So, I expect to be able to have a program like:
> =C2=A0=C2=A0 =C2=A0import sys
> =C2=A0=C2=A0 =C2=A0sys.tracebacklimit=3D0
> =C2=A0=C2=A0 =C2=A0print(1/0)
> And see it's result as:
> =C2=A0=C2=A0 =C2=A0=C2=A0ZeroDivisionError: division by zero
> However, the actual result is:
> =C2=A0=C2=A0 =C2=A0=C2=A0Traceback (most recent call last):
> =C2=A0=C2=A0 =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0File "tbt.py", line 3, in <module>
> =C2=A0=C2=A0 =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 =C2=A0print(1/0)
> =C2=A0=C2=A0 =C2=A0=C2=A0ZeroDivisionError: division by zero
> Do I misunderstand the docs?

Nope. It's a known bug:
http://bugs.python.org/issue12276

Cheers,
Chris