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authorIrit Katriel <1055913+iritkatriel@users.noreply.github.com>2021-12-03 22:01:15 (GMT)
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bpo-45607: Make it possible to enrich exception displays via setting their __note__ field (GH-29880)
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@@ -146,6 +146,12 @@ The :option:`-X` ``no_debug_ranges`` option and the environment variable
See :pep:`657` for more details. (Contributed by Pablo Galindo, Batuhan Taskaya
and Ammar Askar in :issue:`43950`.)
+Exceptions can be enriched with a string ``__note__``
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+The ``__note__`` field was added to :exc:`BaseException`. It is ``None``
+by default but can be set to a string which is added to the exception's
+traceback. (Contributed by Irit Katriel in :issue:`45607`.)
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