On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 6:24 PM, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 8 January 2013 22:29, Christian Tismer <tis...@stackless.com> wrote: >> So why is it so difficult to just use "except ValueError as e" ? >> >> Am I missing the point, or would it not just work with python 2.7 and up? > > The problem is that distribute supports Python 2.4 and up. Until they > drop support for at least 2.4 and 2.5, they don't stand a chance of > moving away from 2to3 to a single-source model (and even then, it's a > lot of work for little benefit so they may not want to take that step > anyway). It's the 2to3 process that's the issue here.
In this particular bit of code, though, they could use "except ValueError:" and "e = sys.exc_info()[1]". I mean, it's not *impossible* to span more Python versions than just 2.7+. Heck, "six" supports 2.4+, and if I ever get far enough on my todo list that I touch setuptools again, I'll probably use it. ;-) _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
