- After an exception, run.py was not setting the exception vector. Noam
Raphael suggested correcting this so pdb's postmortem pm() would work.
IDLEfork Patch 844675
Modified: NEWS.txt run.py
diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/run.py b/Lib/idlelib/run.py
index 4e6345c..d1fe08f 100644
--- a/Lib/idlelib/run.py
+++ b/Lib/idlelib/run.py
@@ -111,7 +111,8 @@
def print_exception():
flush_stdout()
efile = sys.stderr
- typ, val, tb = sys.exc_info()
+ typ, val, tb = excinfo = sys.exc_info()
+ sys.last_type, sys.last_value, sys.last_traceback = excinfo
tbe = traceback.extract_tb(tb)
print >>efile, '\nTraceback (most recent call last):'
exclude = ("run.py", "rpc.py", "threading.py", "Queue.py",