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-rw-r--r--Doc/c-api/exceptions.rst11
-rw-r--r--Doc/library/traceback.rst7
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/c-api/exceptions.rst b/Doc/c-api/exceptions.rst
index dc73ad8..1694aa2 100644
--- a/Doc/c-api/exceptions.rst
+++ b/Doc/c-api/exceptions.rst
@@ -60,9 +60,14 @@ Printing and clearing
Call this function **only** when the error indicator is set. Otherwise it
will cause a fatal error!
- If *set_sys_last_vars* is nonzero, the variables :data:`sys.last_type`,
- :data:`sys.last_value` and :data:`sys.last_traceback` will be set to the
- type, value and traceback of the printed exception, respectively.
+ If *set_sys_last_vars* is nonzero, the variable :data:`sys.last_exc` is
+ set to the printed exception. For backwards compatibility, the
+ deprecated variables :data:`sys.last_type`, :data:`sys.last_value` and
+ :data:`sys.last_traceback` are also set to the type, value and traceback
+ of this exception, respectively.
+
+ .. versionchanged:: 3.12
+ The setting of :data:`sys.last_exc` was added.
.. c:function:: void PyErr_Print()
diff --git a/Doc/library/traceback.rst b/Doc/library/traceback.rst
index 9a04b56..58f4781 100644
--- a/Doc/library/traceback.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/traceback.rst
@@ -86,10 +86,9 @@ The module defines the following functions:
.. function:: print_last(limit=None, file=None, chain=True)
- This is a shorthand for ``print_exception(sys.last_type, sys.last_value,
- sys.last_traceback, limit, file, chain)``. In general it will work only
- after an exception has reached an interactive prompt (see
- :data:`sys.last_type`).
+ This is a shorthand for ``print_exception(sys.last_exc, limit, file,
+ chain)``. In general it will work only after an exception has reached
+ an interactive prompt (see :data:`sys.last_exc`).
.. function:: print_stack(f=None, limit=None, file=None)