Stop at exception in my, not library code

Question

I\'m developing an app using a Python library urllib and it is sometimes rising exceptions due to not being able to access an URL.

However, the exception is

Answer 1

I think the answer is no.

pdb stops at the exception and shows you the stack.

Why would it be useful to hide the real source of the exception?

If it worked as you seem to be requesting and hides the 6 layers of stack how would you work out what to fix?

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