From: Kurt B. Kaiser <kbk@shore.net>
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2002 23:57:17 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Improve exception handling across rpc interface
X-Git-Tag: v2.3c1~4303
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a552e3a0c9aaa5f7540262159515c6798e5d8d7e;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Improve exception handling across rpc interface
Modified Files:
 	rpc.py
---

diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/rpc.py b/Lib/idlelib/rpc.py
index 5bb0e646f192..922a460c0c5d 100644
--- a/Lib/idlelib/rpc.py
+++ b/Lib/idlelib/rpc.py
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ class SocketIO:
         if how == "EXCEPTION":
             mod, name, args, tb = what
             self.traceback = tb
-            if mod:
+            if mod: # not string exception
                 try:
                     __import__(mod)
                     module = sys.modules[mod]
@@ -220,7 +220,10 @@ class SocketIO:
                     except AttributeError:
                         pass
                     else:
+                        # instantiate a built-in exception object and raise it
                         raise getattr(__import__(mod), name)(*args)
+                name = mod + "." + name
+            # do the best we can:
             raise name, args
         if how == "ERROR":
             raise RuntimeError, what