Paul Boddie <p...@boddie.org.uk> added the comment: I would have expected a more accurate error message for the new-style class. In the original message which brought this to my attention, the cause was not particularly obvious:
http://www.selenic.com/pipermail/mercurial/2010-February/030066.html I concede that the different mechanisms in place for new-style classes might make it hard to have a specific error message in such a situation, though. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue7942> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com