On 3/7/06, Thomas Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know that my unittests should not rely on this, but is this change > intended? > > c:\sf\ctypes_head>py24 > Python 2.4.2 (#67, Sep 28 2005, 12:41:11) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. > >>> str(Exception) > 'exceptions.Exception' > >>> ^Z > > > c:\sf\ctypes_head>py > Python 2.5a0 (trunk:42903M, Mar 7 2006, 22:01:07) [MSC v.1310 32 bit > (Intel)] on win32 > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. > >>> str(Exception) > "<class 'exceptions.Exception'>" > >>> ^Z
It's a side-effect of making built-in exceptions new-style classes. Not sure how you would override the string representation of a class anyway to fix this. -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
