On 8/24/05, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/24/05, James Y Knight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think it must be the case that raising an object which does not > > derive from an exception class must be deprecated as well in order > > for "except:" to be deprecated. Otherwise, there is nothing you can > > change "except:" to in order not to get a deprecation warning and > > still have your code be correct in the face of documented features of > > python. > > I agree; isn't that already in ther PEP? This surely has been the > thinking all along. >
Requiring inheritance of BaseException in order to pass it to 'raise' has been in the PEP since the beginning. -Brett _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
