2012/1/20 Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info>: > Guido van Rossum wrote: >> >> It should derive from BaseException. > > > RuntimeError meets that requirement, and it is an existing exception so > there are no issues with introducing a new built-in exception to a point > release. > > py> issubclass(RuntimeError, BaseException) > True
Guido meant a direct subclass. -- Regards, Benjamin _______________________________________________ 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