On 3 July 2013 19:36, Barry Warsaw <ba...@debian.org> wrote: > The reason is that if some code is trying to: > > except 'error message' > > this will fail if the raise site is changed. >
In fact it will already fail - recent Python 2 versions throw a TypeError if you attempt to raise a bare string (from at least 2.6 - I don't have older versions to check). Changing the exception could still lead to it getting caught by an except: clause which previously missed it, though. Thomas
