On 1/21/07, Tony Lownds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jan 20, 2007, at 9:46 PM, Collin Winter wrote: > > > Guido has mentioned [1] that since exceptions will be growing a > > __traceback__ attribute in Python 3, it should be possible to remove > > sys.exc_info(). > > I hope that doesn't happen. sys.exc_info() is the only way to write code > using exception values that will run on both 2.5 and 3.0. > > except Exception: > e = sys.exc_info()[1] >
As has been stated on python-dev, 3.0 will not be hindered by backwards-compatibility. 2.6 is going to be the version that has both 2.x and 3.0 features to allow for transitioning. -Brett _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
