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List:       python-dev
Subject:    Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 344: Exception Chaining and Embedded Tracebacks
From:       Michael Hudson <mwh () python ! net>
Date:       2005-05-20 12:05:13
Message-ID: 2m3bsi2jd2.fsf () starship ! python ! net
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Walter Dörwald <walter@livinglogic.de> writes:

> Ka-Ping Yee wrote:
>
>> [...]
>>     (a) ban string exceptions
>>     (b) require all exceptions to derive from Exception
>>     (c) ban bare "except:"
>>     (d) eliminate sys.exc_*
>
> I think somewhere in this list should be:
>
>        (?) Remove string exceptions from the Python stdlib

I think this is done, more or less.  There's one in test_descr, I
think (probably testing that you can't raise str-subclasses but can
raise strs).

> and perhaps:
>
>        (?) Make Exception a new style class

I have a patch for this on SF, of course.

Cheers,
mwh

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