Python's is actually a little nicer too, in 3.x - it has two types of chains, the 'root cause' one like Java, and a 'this is what I was handling when this excep

Python's is actually a little nicer too, in 3.x - it has two types of chains, the 'root cause' one like Java, and a 'this is what I was handling when this exception happened' - to stop an error in your exception handling code hide the original error.